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Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection

Max Ernst

Le Torse ailé

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 EUR

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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