MAX ERNST | PAYSAGE DE CHOIX
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December 17, 05:28 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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MAX ERNST
(1891 - 1976)
PAYSAGE DE CHOIX
Signed max ernst and titled (on the artist's mount)
Gouache on paper mounted on card
3⅛ by 4 in. (8 by 10 cm)
Framed: 14⅛ by 16¾ in. (35.9 by 42.6 cm)
Executed circa 1953.
Galerie Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf
Private Collection, Opladen, Germany
Galerie Linssen, Bonn & Cologne
Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne (acquired by 1987)
Sale: Christie's, London, June 30, 1987, lot 391
Sale: Sotheby’s, London, November 29, 1989, lot 544
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Werner Spies, Sigrid & Günter Metken, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1939-1953, Houston & Cologne, no. 2995, illustrated p. 348
London, Helly Nahmad Gallery & New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Max Ernst, 2006-07, no. 34, illustrated in color in the catalogue
The present work relates to the collections of gouaches and oils illustrated in the book Sept microbes vus à travers by Max Ernst which was published in 1953.