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The Sleep of Reason Part II: A Private Collection of Surrealist Art Online

MAX ERNST | LE SOURD ET L'AVEUGLE

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November 18, 07:26 PM GMT

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6,000 - 8,000 USD

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MAX ERNST (1891 - 1976)

LE SOURD ET L'AVEUGLE


Signed with the initials me (lower right)

Pen and ink on paper

4⅜ by 7⅞ in. (11.1 by 20 cm)

Framed: 13¼ by 15¾ in. (33.7 by 40 cm)

Executed in 1923.

Gallery of Surrealism, New York

Acquired from the above in April 2008

Philippe Soupalt & André Breton, eds., Literature, no. 11/12, October 1923, Paris, mentioned p. 31

Max Ernst, Écritures, Paris, 1970, mentioned p. 96

Werner Spies, Sigrid & Günter Metken, Max Ernst, Werke 1906-1925, vol. II, Houston & Cologne, 1975, no. 540

Milan, Galleria Ciranna, Albori del Surrealismo nei Disegni di Max Ernst, no. 8