Max Ernst (1891-1976)
A DIALOGUE THROUGH ART: WORKS FROM THE JAN KRUGIER COLLECTION
Max Ernst (1891-1976)

Fruits

Details
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Fruits
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
pencil and frottage on paper
25 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. (65 x 50 cm.)
executed in 1925
Provenance
Serge Diaghilev, Paris (circa 1926).
Serge Lifar, Paris (acquired from the above, 1929).
Private collection, France.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Anon. sale, Tajan, Monaco, 2 August 2000, lot 23.
Jan Krugier, acquired at the above sale.
Literature
W. Spies, S. and G. Metken, Max Ernst Werke 1925-1929, Cologne, 1976, p. 68, no. 922 (illustrated upside down).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Vignon, Collection de peinture de nos jours appartenant à Serge Lifar, December 1929, no. 30.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La passion du dessin: Collection Jan et Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, March-June 2002, pp. 364, 366-367, no. 170 (illustrated in color, p. 365).
Vienna, Albertina Museum, Goya bis Picasso: Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, April-August 2005, p. 326, no. 141 (illustrated in color, p. 327).

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