Lot 199
  • 199

Max Ernst

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
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Description

  • Max Ernst
  • Sans titre
  • Signed Max Ernst (lower right)
  • Charcoal and pastel on paper
  • 24 by 18 7/8 in.
  • 61 by 47.9 cm

Provenance

Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Connecticut (acquired from the artist)
Private Collection, United States
Sale: Tajan, October 5, 2004, lot 7
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co. & New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, The Third Eye: Fantasies, Dreams and Visions, 2005-06, n.n.

Literature

Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken & Günther Metken, Max Ernst. Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2398, illustrated p. 50

Condition

The work is in very good condition. Executed on brown canson paper which has been affixed to a mount at six places along the perimeter of its verso. The sheet is very gently undulated with faint crease marks toward the upper left. A horizontal one-inch tear runs along the extreme top left edge.
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