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Max Ernst

La Comète affolée

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976


La Comète affolée

signed max ernst and dated 51 (lower right)

pastel on paper

12⅝ by 19½ in.

32 by 49.5 cm.

Executed in 1951.

Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York.

Alexander L. Berliner Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1961)

Private Collection, New York 

Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 1991, lot 171 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Connecticut (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, New York

Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1994, lot 265 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Brazil (acquired from the above)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie's, New York, 14 May 2019, lot 148 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Taiwan (acquired from the above)

Bonham's, London, 23 November 2021, lot 26

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Werner Spies, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1939-1953, vol. V, Cologne 1987, no. 2884, p. 297, illustrated (incorrectly illustrated as no. 2883)