Max Ernst

Galerie Edouard Loeb, Paris (acquired by 1960)

William N. Copley, Paris (acquired by 1961)

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 5-6 November 1979, lot 54 (consigned by the above)

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above sale)

Private Collection, London (acquired from the above on 26 May 1982)

Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired in 1988)

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in 1988)

Acquired from the above on 25 January 1991 by the present owners

London, Tate Gallery, Max Ernst, 1961, no. 197, p. 67, listed

New York, Acquavella Galleries, XIX & XX Century Master Paintings & Sculptures, 1988, no. 15, p. 40, illustrated in colour

Max Ernst, Max Ernst: Beyond Painting and Other Writings by the Artist and His Friends, New York, 1948, p. 77, mahogany version illustrated; p. 109, the plaster illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio

André Ferrier, “Max Ernst, sculpteur,” L’Œil, no. 84, December 1961, p. 64, another cast illustrated

John Russell, Max Ernst, Life and Work, New York, 1967, no. 131, n.p., mahogany version illustrated

Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, ed., Hommage à Max Ernst: numéro spécial de la revue XXe siècle, Milan, 1971, p. 61, another cast illustrated

Uwe M. Schneede, The Essential Max Ernst, London, 1972, no. 349, p. 180, mahogany version illustrated

Max Ernst, Basel, 1975, no. 64, p. 81, another cast illustrated 

Edward Quinn, Max Ernst, New York, 1976, no. 312, p. 260 and nos. 316-17, p. 264, other casts illustrated

Julien Levy, Memoir of an Art Gallery, New York, 1977, p. 161, the plaster illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio

Edward Quinn, Max Ernst, Zurich, 1977, nos. 316-17, p. 264, another cast illustrated 

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Nationalgalerie and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Max Ernst Retrospektive, 1979, fig. 169, p. 173, the plaster illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio

Exh. Cat., Calgary, Glenbow Museum, Max Ernst from the Collection of Mr and Mrs Jimmy Ernst, 1979, no. 22, p. 32, the painted plaster illustrated

Pere Gimferrer, Max Ernst, New York, 1983, no. 127, n.p., another cast illustrated in colour

Johannes auf der Lake, Skulpturen von Max Ernst, Frankfurt, Bern and New York, 1986, no. 26, n.p., the plaster illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio; no. 28, p. n.p., mahogany version illustrated

Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken and Günter Metken, Max Ernst, Œuvre-Katalog, Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2473.2, p. 93, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Max Ernst Sculptures, 1996, p. 93, the plaster illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio; p. 140, another cast illustrated

Jürgen Pech, Stiftung Max Ernst, Brühl. Max Ernst, The King Playing with the Queen, Brühl, 2002, fig. 3, n.p., the plaster illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio

Susanne Kaufmann, Im Spannungsfeld von Fläche und Raum, Studien zur Wechselwirkung von Malerei und Skulptur im Werk von Max Ernst, Weimar, 2003, nos. 21a and 21b, p. 250, another cast illustrated 

Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst Plastische Werke, Cologne, 2005, p. 59, the plaster illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio; pp. 72, 73 and 75, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Max Ernst Paramyths: Sculpture, 1934-1967, 2015, n.p., the plaster illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio