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Max Ernst

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 EUR
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Description

  • Max Ernst
  • Méduse circonflexe
  • signed max ernst (lower right): signed max ernst, titled méduse circonflexe, dated 1933 and inscribed 26 rue des Plantes PARIS 14e (on the original canvas before laid down process, according to the catalogue raisonné)
  • oil on canvas
  • 38,2 x 46 cm ; 15 x 18 1/8 in.

Provenance

Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago
Leo Orenstein, New York
Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva
Galerie Jeanne Castel, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1990s

Exhibited

London, Mayor Gallery, 1933, no. 3
Zürich, Was ist Surrealismus?, 1934, no. 47
Julien Levy, 1936

Literature

Werner Spies, Max Ernst Oeuvre-Katalog, 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 1892, illustrated p. 167

Condition

The canvas is lined. There is uneven varnish resolting on uneven fluorescence under UV light, however there appear to be some lines of retouching along the extreme edges and a few further tiny spots in places. There is some dirt ingrained in the varnish. There are some fine lines of shrinkage in the lower right quadrant and craquellure in the lower part of the composition, all stable. There are two paint losses to the left part of the upper edge. This work is in good condition.
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