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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 7, 2012 | Christie's | London | The Art of The Surreal Evening Sale | 121 | $****** - ****** | Loplop présente | |||
Jun 21, 2002 | Galerie Kornfeld | Bern | 19th & 20th Century Art | 30 | $****** - ****** | Loplop presente | |||
May 11, 1995 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture - Part II | 260 | Estimates not disclosed | Lopolop presente |
Works on Paper
64.8 x 49.8 cm (25.51 x 19.61 in)
graphite, collage and frottage on paper
signed and dated 'max ernst 1932' (lower right)
Bodley Gallery, New York. Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York. Menil Foundation, Houston. Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 11 May 1995, lot 260.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
New York, The Bodley Gallery, Max Ernst, Paintings, Collages, Drawings, Sculpture, January - February 1961. Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Max Ernst, Oltre la pittura, June - October 1966, no. 117. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst, Works on Paper, January - December 1968, no. 36. Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, A Young Teaching Collection, November 1968 - January 1969, no. 96 (illustrated). Houston, Rice University, Institute for the Arts, Max Ernst: Inside the Sight, 1970, no. 34 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Hamburg, Kunsthalle, May - June 1970; Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, July - August 1970; Frankfurt, Kunstverein, September - October 1970; Berlin, Akademie der Kunst, November - December 1970; Cologne, Kunsthalle, January - February 1971; Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, April - May 1971; Marseille, Musée Cantini, June - August 1971; Grenoble, Maison de la Culture, September - November 1971; Strasbourg, Ancienne Douane, November 1971 - January 1972; Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, February - April 1972; Houston, Rice University, Institute for the Arts, February - May 1973; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Mary Atkins Museum, September - October 1973; and Chicago, The Art Institute, September - November 1974. New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Max Ernst: A Retrospective, February - April 1975, no. 306 (illustrated). Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Max Ernst, May - August 1975, no. 191 (illustrated). Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Max Ernst, April - May 1977, no. 76 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Kobe, Hyogo Museum of Modern Art, June - July 1977. Munich, Haus der Kunst, Max Ernst: Retrospektiv, January - April 1979, no. 216 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, National Galerie, May - June 1979. Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Max Ernst, die Welt der Collage, September - November 1988; this exhibition travelled to Bern, Kunstmuseum, December 1988 - February 1989; Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, February - April 1989; and Hamburg, Kunsthalle, May - July 1989. Ahlen, Kunstmuseum, Collage Welten, September - November 2001, p. 30 (illustrated). Paris, Musée national d'Art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, La révolution Surréaliste, March - June 2002. Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Surrealismus, 1919-1944, July - November 2002. Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Mestres del Collage: de Picasso à Rauschenberg, November 2005 - February 2006, p. 139 (illustrated). Basel, Museum Tinguely, Max Ernst, im Garten der Nymphe Ancolie, September 2007 - January 2008, p. 134 (illustrated). Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Max Ernst: Dream and Revolution, September 2008 - January 2009, p. 148 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, February - June 2009. Rome, Palazzo del Vittoriano, Dada e Surrealismo riscoperti, October 2009 - February 2010, p. 246 (illustrated).
Art International, vol. XV, 1971, p. 89, no. 5 (illustrated). W. Spies, Max Ernst Collagen, Inventar und Widerspruch, Cologne, 1974, no. 345 (illustrated). W. Spies, ed., Max Ernst Oeuvre-Katalog Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 1850, p. 146 (illustrated). W. Spies, Max Ernst Collagen, Inventar und Widerspruch, Cologne, 1988, no. 192, p. 518 (illustrated). W. Spies, Max Ernst, Loplop, L'Artiste et son double, Paris, 1997, no. 65, p. 84 (illustrated). 'La révolution surréaliste', in Connaissance des Arts, no. 592, March 2002, p. 52 (illustrated). 'La révolution surréaliste', in Connaissance des Arts, special edition HS 175, Paris, 2002, p. 4 (illustrated).
