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Max Ernst
Estimate
1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD
Sold
1,762,500 USD
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Description
- Max Ernst
- Conscious Landscape
- Signed Max Ernst (lower right); signed Max Ernst, titled, and dated N.Y.C. 1942 dated on the reverse
- Oil on canvas
Provenance
Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris
Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above and sold: Christie's London, February 6, 2001, lot 75)
Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above and sold: Christie's London, February 6, 2001, lot 75)
Acquired at the above sale
Exhibited
New York, Valentine Gallery, Max Ernst, 1942, no. 27, illustrated in color
Beverly Hills, The Copley Galleries, Max Ernst, 30 Years of Work, a Survey, 1949, no. 36, illustrated in color
Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Max Ernst, 1950, no. 14, illustrated in color
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Max Ernst, 1962, no. 70, illustrated in color
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Max Ernst, 1963
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Max Ernst, 1969, no 65, illustrated in color
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Max Ernst, 1969-70, no. 62, illustrated in color
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Max Ernst, 1970, no. 72, illustrated in color
London & New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Max Ernst, 2006-07, no. 31, illustrated in color
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Miró, Monet, Matisse - The Nahmad Collection, 2011-12, illustrated
Beverly Hills, The Copley Galleries, Max Ernst, 30 Years of Work, a Survey, 1949, no. 36, illustrated in color
Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Max Ernst, 1950, no. 14, illustrated in color
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Max Ernst, 1962, no. 70, illustrated in color
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Max Ernst, 1963
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Max Ernst, 1969, no 65, illustrated in color
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Max Ernst, 1969-70, no. 62, illustrated in color
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Max Ernst, 1970, no. 72, illustrated in color
London & New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Max Ernst, 2006-07, no. 31, illustrated in color
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Miró, Monet, Matisse - The Nahmad Collection, 2011-12, illustrated
Literature
Pantheon, XXXII. Jg.., 1974, Issue 3, p. 290, illustrated in color
Sigrid Werner Spies & Günther Metken, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2394, p. 47
Sigrid Werner Spies & Günther Metken, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2394, p. 47
Catalogue Note
Ernst painted the present work in New York, soon after he immigrated from war-torn Europe. Titled in English on the reverse, the grattage forms of the present painting call to mind the sky scrapers that Ernst must have seen upon coming to port in New York Harbor.