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Property from an Important New York Collection

Max Ernst

Fin des circonstances

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November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

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Property from an Important New York Collection

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976


Fin des circonstances

signed Max Ernst (lower right)

oil on plaster laid down on canvas

17 by 24 in.

43.2 by 60.1 cm.

Executed in 1923.

Paul Éluard, Eaubonne (commissioned from the artist in 1923)
Galerie André François Petit, Paris
Remo Morone, Turin (acquired by 1975)
Private Collection, New York
Thence by descent to the present owner
Eaubonne, Galerie André François Petit, Max Ernst, Peintures pour Paul Éluard, 1969, p. 13 illustrated in color and p. 45
Paul Éluard, Anthologie des écrits sur l’art, Paris 1972, no. 172, p. 154
Béatrix Blavier, Max Ernst: Murals for the Home of Paul and Gala Éluard, Eaubonne, 1923, Master's dissertation, Rice University, 1985, figs. 90-91 and 218, illustrated pp. 330 and 431, also illustrated in situ p. 330
Werner Spies, Günter Metken and Sigrid Metken, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1906-1925, Cologne 1975, no. 645, p. 335, illustrated