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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 1, 2021 | Phillips | London | Maximiliana: Max Ernst from the Collection of Peter Schamoni, Online Auction | 37 | $****** - ****** | Di oscuri - les dieux obscurs |
Works on Paper
18.9 x 24.4 cm (7.44 x 9.61 in)
paper collage on card mounted on handwritten paper manuscript of Paramyths
titled 'di oscuri - les dieux obscurs' upper edge; signed and dedicated 'à Hans Richter affect. Max Ernst' lower edge
Private Collection
Peter Schamoni, Munich
Los Angeles, The Copley Galleries, Max Ernst, 30 years of his work, a Survey , 10 January - 20 February 1949, p. 31 (illustrated)
Brühl, Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Entdeckungsfahrten zu Max Ernst / Die Sammlung Peter Schamoni , 24 February - 23 June 2013, p. 176 (illustrated, pp. 102-103)
Das Kunstwerk , issue 4, 1956-7, p. 4 (illustrated)
Patrick Waldberg, Max Ernst , Paris, 1958, p. 71 (illustrated and titled Paramythe )
Vernissage , Baden-Baden, 1, issue 1, February 1960, p. 4 (illustrated)
Max Ernst, Écrits & OEuvre gravé , exh. cat., Bibliothèque Municipale, Tours; Le Point Cardinal, Paris, 1963, no. 29, p. 20 (illustrated p. 22 and titled Paramythen )
John Russell, Max Ernst, Leben und Werk , London, 1967, p. 354 (illustrated p. 172)
Michel Sanouillet and Robert Lebel, metafisica dada, surrealismo, parte seconda, l'arte moderna 20 , Mailand, 1967, no. 29, p. 22 (illustrated)
Pantheon, 32, issue 3, July - September 1974, p. 291 (illustrated)
Werner Spies, Max Ernst - Collagen, Inventar und Widerspruch , Cologne, 1974, no. 502, n.p. (illustrated)
Werner Spies, Sigrid and Günter Metken, eds., Max Ernst Œuvre-Katalog. Max Ernst Werke 1939-1953 , Cologne, 1987, no. 2676, p. 195 (illustrated)
titled 'di oscuri - les dieux obscurs' upper edge; signed and dedicated 'à Hans Richter affect. Max Ernst' lower edge
paper collage on card mounted on handwritten paper manuscript of Paramyths
card element 18.9 x 12.2 cm (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
mount 18.9 x 24.4 cm (7 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.)
Executed in 1948.
