Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale
Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale
Auction Closed
June 29, 05:15 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
MAX ERNST
1891 - 1976
CHÉRI BIBI
Inscribed Max Ernst, numbered 131/175 and stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani cire perdue
Bronze
Height 13¼ in. (33.7 cm)
Conceived and cast in 1973 in a numbered edition of 175 plus 15 artist's proofs by the Valsuani Foundry, Paris.
Dr. Jürgen Pech has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Galerie Gollong, Saint Paul-de-Vence (acquired circa 1992)
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above)
Sale: Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, May 31, 2017, lot 330
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Max Ernst (exhibition catalogue), Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1983, no. 143, illustration of another cast p. 147
Max Ernst, Sculpture 1934-1974 (exhibition catalogue), Cavaliero Fine Arts, New York, 1987, no. 56, illustration of another cast p. 44
Max Ernst, The Sculpture (exhibition catalogue), Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 1990, no. 5, illustration of another cast p. 44
Max Ernst, The Sculpture (exhibition catalogue), Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach & traveling, 1992-93, no. 56, illustration of another cast p. 44
Max Ernst, Skulptur (exhibition catalogue), Konsthall Malmö, Malmö, Sweden, 1995-96, n.n., illustration of another cast p. 177
Max Ernst, Sculpture 1929-1974, Frottages, Photographs (exhibition catalogue), Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom, 1996, n.n.
Max Ernst, Sculpture / Sculptures (exhibition catalogue), Museo d’Arte Contemporaneo, Castello di Rivoli, 1996, n.n., illustration of another cast p. 184
Max Ernst—Sculptures (exhibition catalogue), Municipal Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, 1997, n.n.
Max Ernst Esculturas, obras sobre papel, obras gráficas (exhibition catalogue), Museo Brasileiro da Escultura Marilsa Rathsam, São Paulo, 1997, no. 52, illustration of another cast p. 99
Max Ernst, Skulpturen (exhibition catalogue), Carinthian Museum of Modern Art, Klagenfurt, Austria, 1997, n.n., illustration of another cast p. 139
Max Ernst in Beeld / Max Ernst’s Sculptures (exhibition catalogue), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam & traveling, 1997-98, n.n.
Max Ernst, Sculptures, Maisons, Paysages (exhibition catalogue), Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris & traveling, 1998, n.n., illustration of another cast p. 183
Max Ernst (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, 1998, no. 53, illustration of another cast p. 21
Max Ernst, Esculturas (exhibition catalogue), Fundação Arpad Szenes Vieira da Silva, Lisbon, 1999-2000, n.n., illustration of another cast in color p. 78
Max Ernst, The Surrealist Universe in Sculpture, Painting and Photography (exhibition catalogue), Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, 2000, no. S-59, illustration of another cast in color p. 78
Max Ernst, Malerei, Graphik und Multiples (exhibition catalogue), Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, 2001, nos. 9 & 10, illustrations of other casts pp. 19-20
Max Ernst (exhibition catalogue), Okazaki Museum, Okazaki, Japan & The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan, 2001, no. 3-59, illustration of another cast in color p. 149
Max Ernst—Traumlandschaften (exhibition catalogue), Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, Apolda, Germany & Ernst Barlach Haus, Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Hamburg, 2004, no. 67, illustration of another cast in color p. 111
Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst—Plastische Werke, Cologne, 2005, illustrations of another cast in color pp. 206-07
Max Ernst, Skulpturen, Arbeiten auf Papier, Radierungen und Lithographien (exhibition catalogue), Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, 2003, n.n., illustration of another cast in color p. 127