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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

Lot 103
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Lot 103 | MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

démonstration hydrométrique à tuer par la température

signed and inscribed 'démonstration hydrométrique à tuer par la température / max ernst' (along the lower edge of the artist's mount)

paper collage, gouache, pen and India ink and pencil on paper laid on the artist's mount

Image: 9 3⁄8 x 6 ¾ in. (24 x 17 cm.)

Artist’s mount: 11 ¾ x 8 ¾ in. (29.5 x 22.2 cm.)

Executed in 1920





Provenance

Galerie Jacques Tronche, Paris, by 1968.

Jacques Tronche, Paris, by 1975.

Private collection, France.



Literature

U. M. Schneede, The Essential Max Ernst, London, 1972, p. 207 (illustrated, no. 46).

W. Spies, S. & G. Metken, Max Ernst, Werke 1906-1925, Cologne, 1975, no. 346, p. 175 (illustrated).

E. Quinn, Max Ernst, London, 1977, no. 62, p. 60 (illustrated).

I. Turpin, Ernst, New York, 1979, no. 3, p. 27 & 36 (illustrated; titled 'Hydrometric Demonstration' and with incorrect dimensions).

W. Konnertz, Max Ernst, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Übermalungen, Frottagen, Cologne, 1980, no. 13 (illustrated).

Exh. cat., Max Ernst Das Rendezvous der Freunde, Cologne, 1991, p. 64 (illustrated).

W. A. Camfield, Max Ernst: Dada and Dawn of Surrealism, exh. cat., Munich & New York, 1993, no. 52, p. 366 (illustrated pl. 54).



Exhibited

Paris, Au Sans Pareil, Exposition Dada Max Ernst, May - June 1921, no. 18 (titled 'Démonstration hydrométrique').

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage, March - June 1968, no. 91, p. 233 (illustrated fig. 63, p. 50); this exhibition later travelled to Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, July - September, 1968; and Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, October - December, 1968.

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Max Ernst: a retrospective, February - April 1975, no. 43, p. 85 (illustrated).

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand-Palais, Max Ernst, May - August 1975, no. 54, p. 158 (illustrated p. 37).

Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 10x Max Ernst, Eine didaktische Ausstellung zum Versta ndnis seiner Kunst, Bilder, Fotos, Texte, November 1978 - January 1979, p. 8 (illustrated p.9).

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Max Ernst, Retrospektive 1979, February - April 1979, no. 33, p. 219 (illustrated pl. 7, p. 25 & p. 219); this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Nationalgalerie, May - July 1979.

Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Max Ernst in Köln, die Rheinische Kunstszene bis 1922, May - July 1980, p. 325 (illustrated p. 213).

Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Max Ernst, die Welt der Collage, September - November 1988, no. 22, pp. 495 & 506 (illustrated pl. 35 (3)); this exhibition later travelled to Bern, Kunstmuseum, December 1988 - February 1989; and Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, February - April 1989.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture, October 1990 - January 1991, no. 57, pp. 266 & 458 (illustrated p. 266); this exhibition later travelled to Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, February - May 1991; and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, June - September 1991.

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Max Ernst: sculptures, maisons, paysages, May - July 1998, no. 4, p. 307 (illustrated, p. 35; titled 'Démonstration hydrométrique'); this exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, September - November 1998.

Vienna, Albertina, Max Ernst: Retrospective, January - May 2013, no. 20. p. 57 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Basel, Fondation Beyeler, May - September 2013.
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