Lot Essay
To our knowledge, only one other impression of this very rare and early print has been offered at auction in the last thirty years.
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Pays sage II
Details
MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Pays sage II
etching, 1923, on simili-Japan paper, a fine impression of this rare print, signed, annotated and numbered 'no. 4 landschaft' in pencil, from the edition of approximately seven impressions
Plate 175 x 123 mm., Sheet 320 x 248 mm.
Pays sage II
etching, 1923, on simili-Japan paper, a fine impression of this rare print, signed, annotated and numbered 'no. 4 landschaft' in pencil, from the edition of approximately seven impressions
Plate 175 x 123 mm., Sheet 320 x 248 mm.
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 20 November 1989, lot 154.
Gilbert E. Kaplan (1941-2016), New York; Christie's, New York, 1-2 November 2016, lot 36.
Acquired from the above.
Gilbert E. Kaplan (1941-2016), New York; Christie's, New York, 1-2 November 2016, lot 36.
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. 11 (another impression cited).
G. E. Kaplan, Surrealist Prints, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1997, no. 51 (this impression cited).
G. E. Kaplan, Surrealist Prints, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1997, no. 51 (this impression cited).
Exhibited
Visionary States: Surrealist Prints from the Gilbert E. Kaplan Collection, Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, September 1996 - January 1997, no. 51.
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