Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Max Ernst (1891-1976)

L'homme et la femme

Details
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
L'homme et la femme
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10¾ x 8 7/8 in. (27.2 x 22.4 cm.)
Painted in 1929
Provenance
Sir Michael Sadler, Oxford.
The Leicester Galleries (Ernest, Brown & Phillips, Ltd.), London (1944).
Mrs. Younger (acquired from the above).
Eric C. Gregory, London.
Dr. and Mrs. Hirschman, United States.
Galerie Jeanne Castel, Paris (by 1979).
Private collection, New York.
Acquired by the present owner, November 1995.
Literature
E. Quinn, Max Ernst, Paris, 1976, p. 171, no. 197 (illustrated in color).
W. Spies, Max Ernst Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, p. 64, no. 1688 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Vignon, Max Ernst, November-December 1930.
London, The Mayor Gallery, Ltd., Max Ernst, June-July 1933, no. 8.
London, The Leicester Galleries (Ernest, Brown & Phillips, Ltd.), Selected Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from the Collection of the Late Sir Michael Sadler, January-February 1944, p. 17, no. 126 (titled Study and dated 1932).
London, Acoris, The Surrealist Art Centre, Surrealist Masters, May-July 1974, p. 58, no. 27 (illustrated in color, p. 59; titled Figure Anthropomorphique and dated 1932).
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Exposition Max Ernst, Peintures-Sculptures-Collages-Frottages, March-April 1977, no. 7 (illustrated; titled La Femme).
Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Dix ans d'activité, 1983, no. 69 (illustrated in color; titled La Femme).

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