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Max Ernst

Au Moindre bruit les oiseaux se taisent

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November 17, 10:26 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

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Max Ernst

1891 - 1976

Au Moindre bruit les oiseaux se taisent


signed max ernst (lower right); dated 1972 (lower left); signed and dated (on the reverse)

oil on panel mounted on panel

13 by 9½ in.

33 by 24 cm.

Executed in 1972.


Dr. Jürgen Pech has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the supplementary volume of the Complete Works of Max Ernst now in preparation, edited by Prof. Dr Werner Spies in collaboration with Dr. Jürgen Pech and Sigrid Metken.

Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris
Private Collection, Europe
Artcurial Paris, 5 December 2005, lot 11
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Vence, Galerie Alphonse Chave, Max Ernst ne peint plus!... Peintures récentes de décembre 1972 à janvier 1973, 1973, n.n., p. 7, illustrated 
Paris, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Perturbation, délices et orgues, 1973-74, n.n., p. 7, illustrated 
Edward Quinn, Max Ernst, Zurich, 1970, no. 521, p. 404, illustrated in color (inverted and incorrectly dated)
Sarane Alexandrian, Max Ernst, Paris, 1986, p. 114, illustrated in color