Lot 110
110
Max Ernst (1891-1976) and Johannes Theodor Baargeld (1892-1927)
Beyond Boundaries: Avant-Garde Masterworks from a European Collection
Max Ernst (1891-1976) and Johannes Theodor Baargeld (1892-1927)

Typoskript-Manifest

Details
Max Ernst (1891-1976) and Johannes Theodor Baargeld (1892-1927)
Typoskript-Manifest
First: printed paper collage on typed paper
Second: printed paper collage and frottage on typed paper
Each: 11 ¼ x 8 7/8 in. (28.6 x 22.4 cm.)
Executed in 1920
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Provenance
Tristan Tzara, Paris (acquired from the artists); sale, Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 12 June 1968, lot 286.
Galerie Tarica, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners, circa 1970.
Literature
W. Spies and S. and G. Metken, Max Ernst, Werke, 1906-1925, Cologne, 1975, p. 169, nos. 334 and 335 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Boston Museum of Modern Art; Springfield Museum of Fine Arts; Milwaukee Art Institute; Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, University Art Gallery and San Francisco Museum of Art, Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, December 1936-September 1937, no. 298.
Düsseldorf Kunsthalle; Frankfurt Kunstverein and Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Dada, Dokumente einer Bewegung, September 1958-February 1959, no. 315.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Houston, The Menil Collection and The Art Institute of Chicago, Max Ernst, Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism, March-November 1993, p. 366, nos. 47-48.

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Lot Essay

The present works, Typoskript-Manifest, are the result of a collaboration between Max Ernst and Johannes T. Baargeld. Baargeld created the left-leaning art and political journal, Der Ventilator, with which Max Ernst was closely involved. Following the establishment of Dada in Berlin, they formed the Cologne branch of the movement with Hans Arp with an emphasis on the art becoming depersonalized and automatic. Ernst and Baargeld remained separate from the Berlin arm of the group, but they did participate in the famed 1920 Dada exhibition in Berlin. The same year they published Bulletin D and the first edition of Die Schammade; both of which were subsequently banned. The present works executed in 1920 stem from their work together and the founding of the Dada movement in Cologne.

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