MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

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Los 40 | MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

Le roi jouant avec la reine

signed 'Max Ernst' (on the front)

bronze with brown patina

Height: 39 1/2 in. (100.5 cm.)

Conceived in 1944 and cast in 1953-1961





Provenance

Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York (probably acquired from the artist).

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro, Chicago (acquired from the above); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 1992, lot 50.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

M. Ernst, Beyond Painting and Other Writings about the Artist and his Friends, New York, 1948, p. 78 (plaster illustrated, p. 79).

C. Giedion-Welcker, Contemporary Sculpture: An Evolution in Volume and Space, New York, 1955, p. 244 (another cast illustrated).

P. Waldberg, Max Ernst, Paris, 1958, p. 409 (another cast illustrated).

F. Hazan, Dictionnaire de la sculpture moderne, Paris, 1960, p. 88 (another cast illustrated; titled Le roi jouant aux échecs avec sa reine).

J. Russell, Max Ernst: Life and Work, New York, 1967, no. 147 (another cast illustrated).

W. Spies, S. and G. Metken, Max Ernst: Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, p. 86, no. 2465,I (another cast illustrated).

W. Spies, Max Ernst: Sculptures, maisons, paysages, exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1998 (plaster illustrated, p. 135; another cast illustrated).



Exhibited

The Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, 1985, p. 58, no. 56 (illustrated, fig. 46).



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