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Lot 4
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Max Ernst

Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 EUR
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Description

  • Max Ernst
  • La Louve romaine
  • signed Max Ernst (lower right) ; signed Max Ernst, titled Louve romaine and dated 1954 (on the reverse)
  • oil on canvas
  • 90.3 by 100.4 cm ; 35 1/2 by 39 1/2 in.

Provenance

Urvater Collection, Brussels
Private Collection  (acquired circa the 1980s)
By descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Otterloo, Museum Kröller-Müller & Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Les Grandes Collections belges : Collection  Urvater, 1957, no. 39
Leicester, Museum and Art Gallery; York, City Art Gallery & London, Tate Gallery, Paintings from the Urvater Collection, 1958, no. 30
Kassel, Documenta II, 1959, no. 36

Literature

Patrick Waldberg, Max Ernst, Paris, 1958, illustrated p. 107
Edward Quinn, Max Ernst, Paris, 1976, no. 344, illustrated p. 278
Werner Spies, Sigrid & Günter Metken, Max Ernst Œuvre-Katalog, Werke 1954-1963, Cologne, 1998, no. 3068, illustrated p. 14

Condition

The canvas is not lined. There is no evidence of retouching under UV light. This work is in excellent original condition.
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