Avatars & Allegories: Property from the Estate of Pierre M. Schlumberger

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976

Untitled (The Birth of Venus)

signed max ernst (lower right)

oil on panel

32.7 by 41.4cm., 12⅞ by 16¼in.

Framed: 44.5 by 55.5cm., 17½ by 21⅞in.

Painted in 1969.

Dr. Jürgen Pech has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the supplementary volume of the Complete Works of Max Ernst now in preparation, edited by Prof. Dr Werner Spies in collaboration with Dr. Jürgen Pech and Sigrid Metken.