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Max Ernst

"...jusqu'à épuisement complet des beaux danseurs!"

Auction Closed

September 18, 06:19 PM GMT

Estimate

18,000 - 25,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976


"...jusqu'à épuisement complet des beaux danseurs!"

signed max ernst (lower right)

collage mounted on paper

sheet: 24.7 by 19.4 cm. 9¾ by 7⅜ in.

artist's mount: 29.8 by 24.4 cm. 11¾ by 9⅝ in.

Executed in 1929-30.

Julien Levy, New York and Connecticut (acquired from the artist)

Sotheby's, New York, The Julien Levy Collection, 4 November 1981, lot 97 (consigned by the above)

Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York (acquired from the above sale)

Acquired from the above in 1981 by the present owner

Max Ernst, Rêve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel, Paris, 1930, n.p., illustrated

Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken and Gunter Metken, Max Ernst: Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 1598, p. 18, illustrated