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Property from a Private Collection, UK

Max Ernst

Ohne Titel (Untitled)

Lot Closed

October 17, 12:38 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, UK

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976

Ohne Titel (Untitled)

signed max ernst and dated 49 (lower right)

watercolour and pencil and frottage on paper

32.9 by 25.1cm. 13 by 9⅞ in.

Framed: 55.5 by 46.8 cm. 22¾ by 18⅜ in.

Executed in 1949.

The Bodley Gallery, New York (acquired by 1961)

Private Collection, Philadelphia (acquired by 1970)

Sotheby's New York, 15 February 2007, lot 131 (consigned by the above)

De Vuyst Lokeren, 14 May 2011, lot 297

Gallery Boisserée, Cologne

Acquired in 2020 from the above by the present owner

New York, Bodley Gallery, Max Ernst: Paintings, Collages, Drawings, Sculpture, 1961, n.n., listed (titled La brebis galante)

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loans, 1970 (on loan)

Werner Spies, Sigrid and Günter Metken, Max Ernst, Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2803, p. 260, illustrated