Lot 109
  • 109

Max Ernst 1891-1976

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Max Ernst
  • Objet mobile recommandé aux familles
  • insribed Max Ernst, dated 1936-1970 and numbered 6/9

  • wood, string and straw
  • Height: 39 in.
  • 99 cm.
  • Conceived in 1936 and executed in an edition of 9 plus 3 hors commerce in 1970.

Provenance

Pace Wildenstein, New York

Literature

Sigrid and Gunter Metken and Werner Spies, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1929-1938, Menil Foundation, Houston, Texas and DuMont Buchverlag, 1979, Köln, number 2251, illustration of another example p. 361
Werner Spies, Max Ernst- Sculptures, Maisons, Paysages (exhibition catalogue), Paris, 1998, no. 61, illustration of another example p. 72/73 

Condition

The work is in good condition. Thining of the straw.
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