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Max Ernst

Coquillage mer verte

Auction Closed

September 18, 06:19 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976


Coquillage mer verte

signed max ernst and dated 64-65 (lower right); dated 1965 and inscribed une armée de harengs (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

62.4 by 76 cm. 23⅝ by 29⅞ in.

Executed in 1964-65.

Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above on 15 January 1985 by the present owner

Bologna, Galleria de' Foscherari, Max Ernst, 1970, no. 19, n.p., illustrated

Athens, Aithousa Technis Athinon, Max Ernst, 1978, no. 7

Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken, Günter Metken and Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst: Werke 1964-1969, Cologne, 2007, no. 4026, p. 92, illustrated