Modern & Contemporary Auction
Modern & Contemporary Auction
Property from an Important Swiss Private Collection
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