Details
MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Pays sage I
drypoint, 1923, on simili-Japan paper, a very good impression of this rare print, signed in pencil, numbered 'no. 6', from the edition of approximately ten impressions
Plate 170 x 127 mm., Sheet 324 x 248 mm.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 November 1989, lot 344.
Gilbert E. Kaplan (1941-2016), New York; Christie's, New York, 1-2 November 2016, lot 35.
Acquired from the above.
Literature
W. Spies & H. R. Leppien, Max Ernst/Das Graphische Werk, Menil Foundation, Houston, Texas, & Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne, 1975, no. 10 (another impression cited).
G. E. Kaplan, Surrealist Prints, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1997, no. 50 (this impression cited).
Exhibited
Visionary States: Surrealist Prints from the Gilbert E. Kaplan Collection, Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, September 1996 - January 1997, no. 50.

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