
Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection
Le Torse ailé
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection
Max Ernst
1891-1976
Le Torse ailé
signed max ernst (lower center)
oil on canvas
130 x 130 cm; 51⅛ x 51⅛ in.
Executed in 1926.
Paul Eluard, Paris
Aram D. Mouradian, Paris
Fischer Fine Art, London
Private collection, Paris
Galleria Levi, Milan
Private collection, Milan (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Paris, Galerie Denise René, Max Ernst, 1945, no. 30 (titled Torse)
London, The Matthiesen Gallery, Retrospective exhibition of Paintings by Max Ernst, 1956, no. 9 (titled Vénus Ailée)
Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Surréalisme, 1971, no. 86, illustrated (titled Torse Ailé)
London, Fischer Fine Art Limited, Universe of Art II, 1972, no. 18, illustrated in colour
Milan, Levi Arte Moderna, Surrealismo, 1974, no. 3, p. 23, illustrated in colour
Werner Spies, Max Ernst, Œuvre-Katalog, Werke 1925-1929, Cologne, 1976, no. 1060, p. 139, illustrated