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Untitled (La ville entière)
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Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Untitled (La ville entière)
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
oil on paper
9 1/8 x 12 1/8 in. (23.2 x 30.8 cm.)
Painted in 1935
Untitled (La ville entière)
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
oil on paper
9 1/8 x 12 1/8 in. (23.2 x 30.8 cm.)
Painted in 1935
Provenance
Private collection, Zurich, by whom acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
W. Spies, S. & G. Metken, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog: Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 2216, p. 339 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Bern, Kunsthalle, Max Ernst, August - September 1956, no. 63.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Arnold Bo¨cklin, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst: eine Reise ins Ungewisse, October 1997 - January 1998, no. 200.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, He´le'ne de Mandrot et la Maison des artistes de La Sarraz, February - April 1999.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Arnold Bo¨cklin, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst: eine Reise ins Ungewisse, October 1997 - January 1998, no. 200.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, He´le'ne de Mandrot et la Maison des artistes de La Sarraz, February - April 1999.
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