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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

Lot 28
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ID 1425769
Lot 28 | MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Etamines et marseillaise de Arp
signed, dated and titled 'max ernst 1919 étamines et marseillaise' (lower edge)
gouache, pen and black ink, pencil and ink stamps on printed paper laid down on card
Sheet size (irregular): 12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25.5 cm.)
Mount size: 17 1/8 x 13 1/8 in. (43.5 x 33.5 cm.)
Executed in Cologne in 1919




Provenance

Paul Eluard, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3 July 1924, lot 9.
Collection Rosenberg (acquired at the above sale).
Kurt and Arlette Seligmann, New York (by 1961); sale, Christie’s, New York, 3 November 1993, lot 251.
The Pace Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 30 June 1994.



Literature

W. Spies, Max Ernst-Collagen: Inventar und Widerspruch, Cologne, 1974, pp. 26-27, 45, 203 and 487, no. 75 (illustrated).
W. Spies, S. and G. Metken, Max Ernst: Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1906-1925, Cologne, 1975, p. 159, no. 315 (illustrated).
W.A. Camfield, Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism, Munich, 1993, p. 365, no. 33 (illustrated, pl. 39).



Exhibited

Berlin, Kunsthandlung Dr. Otto Burchard, Erste Internationale Dada-Messe, July-August 1920, no. 82.
Paris, Galerie Au Sans Pareil, Exposition Dada: Max Ernst, la mise sous whisky Marin, se fait en crème kaki et en cinq anatomies, vive le sport, May-June 1921, no. 19.
Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Exposition internationale du Surréalisme, January-February 1938, p. 5, no. 82.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Max Ernst, March-July 1961, no. 180.
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