Lot 459
  • 459

Max Ernst

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Max Ernst
  • Ohne titel (Untitled)
  • signed Max Ernst (lower right)
  • chalk, mixed media collage and frottage on paper
  • 70.6 by 51.8cm., 27 3/4 by 20 3/8 in.

Provenance

Galleria il Fauno, Turin
Alexandrer Iolas 
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in the mid-1980s; sale: Sotheby's, London, 23rd June 2010, lot 303)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Werner Spies, Max Ernst Œuvre Katalog, Werke 1964-1969, Cologne, 2007, vol. VII, no. 4056, illustrated p. 108 

Condition

Executed on thick wove paper and not laid down. There are some small spots of rubbing to the brown paper and a tear (approx. 1.5cm.) to the lower part of the left edge, all possibly intrinsic to the artist's process. This work is in overall very good condition.
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