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Property from an Important Swiss Private Collection

Max Ernst

Aux petits agneaux, 1971

Lot Closed

December 8, 03:03 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 CHF

Lot Details

Description

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976

Aux petits agneaux, 1971


Book in folio, folded and unbound with 20 lithographs in-text on Vélin d'Arches; accompanied by the additional suite of 19 lithographs hors-text in colors on Japanese paper

The book signed by the artist and the author in pencil, numbered 87 from an edition of 101;

each lithograph from the suite signed and numbered 87/101

In its original burnt umber cloth-covered clam-shell portfolio, title embossed on the spine

33 x 25,5 cm (sheet); 37,5 x 27,5 cm (portfolio)

Private collection, Switzerland

Werner Spies & Helmut R. Leppien, Max Ernst, Oeuvre - Katalog, Das Graphische Werk, Houston, Menil Foundation & Köln, Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1975, no. 196, I-XX