Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property from an Important Private Collection
Mespōche (Clan)
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Max Ernst
1891 - 1976
Mespōche (Clan)
signed Max Ernst (lower right); signed Max Ernst, dated July 1919 and titled Meschpoche (on the reverse)
oil on card
35.5 by 28 cm. 14 by 11 ⅛ in.
Framed: 47.7 by 40.5 cm. 18 ¾ by 16 in.
Executed in July 1919.
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.
Lucie M. Bruder, Geneva
Susanna Rentsch, Winterthur
Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, 24 November 2000, lot 21
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner