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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 8, 2023 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 73 | Estimates not disclosed | Ici l'action se simplifie |
paintings
39 x 18 cm (15.35 x 7.09 in)
Oil on plaster, transferred onto canvas
Lower right
Paul Éluard, Eaubonne. Éluard family, Eaubonne (inherited from the above). Galerie André François Petit, Paris (acquired from the above in 1969). Marcel Mabille, Rhode-St. Genèse, Belgium. Galerie 27, Paris. Private collection Berlin (acquired through Galerie Brusberg in 1989).
Max Ernst peintures pour Paul Éluard, Galerie André-Francois Petit, Paris, May - June 1969, fig. p. 46. Max Ernst. Sculptures, maisons, paysages. Centre Georges Pompidou Musée National d"Art Moderne, Paris, May 5 - July 27, 1998, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, September 5 - November 29, 1998, cat. no. 16, fig. p. 234, (with a label on the reverse) Surrealismus 1919-1944. Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso ., K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Surrealismus 1919-1944, July 20 - November 24, 2002 (with a label on the reverse), Centre Pompidou, Paris March 6 - June 24, 2002. Surreal Things. Surrealism, Design and the Decorative Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, March 29 - July 22, 2007, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, September 29, 2007 - January 6, 2008; Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, March 3 - July 22, 2008, cat. no. 3.12 (color illu. p. 47).
Werner Spies/Sigrid and Günter Metken, Max Ernst Oeuvre-Katalog. Werke 1906-1925, Cologne 1975, p. 333, no. 642 (fig.) Dieter Brusberg, Max Ernst - Gärten der Lust, in: brusberg-berichte 10, pp. 53 - 57. Patrik Waldberg, Max Ernst chez Paul Eluard, in: Eaubonne, pp. 13ff. (fig. p. 46 Paul Éluard, Anthologie des écrits sur l"Art. Paris, 1972, p. 255, fig. 174 Gaston Diehl, Max Ernst. Paris 1973, fig. p. 70. Béatrix Blavier, Max Ernst: Murals for the home of Paul and Gala Eluard, Eaubonne, 1923, Rice University, Houston, Texas, May 1985, p. 96, fig. p. 317 (in situ), fig. p. 318 For general information on the paintings at Eaubonne: Dieter Brusberg, Max Ernst - Gärten der Lust, in: brusberg-berichte 10, pp. 53 - 57. Dieter Brusberg (ed.) Hommage an Max Ernst, Berlin 1990 pp. 18ff. Doris Krystof, /Entrer, sortir. /Raum, Rhythmus und Passage im Dekorationszyklus für das Haus von Gala und Paul Eluard in Eaubonne, in: Max Ernst. Skulpturen, Häuser, Landschaften, pp. 225-245.
Ici l"action se simplifie . 1923. Oil on plaster, transferred onto canvas. Spiess Metken 642. Lower right signed. 39 x 18 cm (15.3 x 7 in). • In 1923 made as a mural for the house of Paul Èlouard, after more than 40 years, his daughter was able to preserve the work in 1967. • This is one of the unique murals that Max Ernst painted in Paul Élouard"s house in 1923. • Other works from this cycle are in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Teheran, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf and the Sprengel Museum, Hanover . We are grateful to Dr. Jürgen Pech, Bonn, for his kind support in cataloging this lot.
