MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

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Lot 2 | MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
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$ 400 000 – 600 000
MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Ernst, Max.
Un ami empressé
signed and dated 'Max Ernst 1944' (on the left side of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 26 ¼ in. (66.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1944; this bronze version cast in 1957




Provenance

Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Connecticut.
Richard L. Feigen & Co., Inc., New York.
Morton G. Neumann, Chicago (acquired from the above, 1 April 1968, then by descent to the present owners).



Literature

M. Ernst, Max Ernst: Beyond Painting and Other Writings by the Artist and His Friends, New York, 1948, p. 89 (plaster version illustrated).
M. Jean, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1959, p. 378 (another cast illustrated, p. 309).
A. Ferrier, "Max Ernst: Sculpteur" in L'Œil, no. 84, December 1961, p. 69, no. 84.
J. Russell, Max Ernst: Life and Work, New York, 1967, p. 352, no. 130 (another cast illustrated, p. 329; with incorrect dimensions).
W.S. Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art, New York, 1968, pp. 262 and 480 (another cast illustrated, p. 262, fig. 251).
J. Levy, "Hommage à Max Ernst" in XXe siècle, 1971, p. 62.
U.M. Schneede, Max Ernst, London, 1972, pp. 181 and 213, no. 351 (another cast illustrated, p. 181).
E. Quinn, Max Ernst, New York, 1977, p. 259, no. 313 (another cast illustrated in situ in the artist's garden, Seillans, France, pp. 261 and 414).
J. auf der Lake, Skulpturen von Max Ernst: Aesthetische Theorie und Praxis, Frankfurt, 1986, pp. 113-114 (another cast illustrated, figs. 29a-c).
W. Spies, Max Ernst: Werke, 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, p. 92, no. 2472.I (another cast illustrated).
J. Levy, Memoir of an Art Gallery, Boston, 2003, p. 271 (plaster version illustrated in situ).
U. Bischoff, Max Ernst: Beyond Painting, Cologne, 2005, p. 82 (another cast illustrated).
J. Pech, Max Ernst: Plastische Werke, Cologne, 2005, pp. 58-62 (plaster version illustrated, pp. 59 and 60; another cast illustrated, pp. 11 and 61-63).



Exhibited

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, August-December 1980, p. 56, no. 46 (illustrated).



Further Details

This work will be included in the forthcoming volume of the Max Ernst catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared by Werner Spies in collaboration with Sigrid Metken and Jürgen Pech.
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