Max Ernst and Man Ray
Nude
Auction Closed
September 18, 06:19 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Max Ernst and Man Ray
1891 - 1976 / 1890 - 1976
Nude
signed max ernst (lower right)
silver print photogram after a frottage
29 by 22.3 cm. 11⅜ by 8¾ in.
Executed in 1930.
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.
Julien Levy, New York and Connecticut (acquired from the artist)
Sotheby's, New York, The Julien Levy Collection, 4 November 1981, lot 93 (consigned by the above)
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Acquired from the above in 1981 by the present owner
Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken and Günter Metken, Max Ernst: Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 1743, p. 92, frottage illustrated
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