Paysage

Details

MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Paysage
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
oil and decalcomania on panel
5 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. (13.8 x 8.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1952

Provenance

Barnet Hodes, Chicago; sale, Christie's, New York, 12 November 1984, lot 55.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

Further Details

This work will be included in the forthcoming volume of the Max Ernst catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared by Werner Spies in collaboration with Sigrid Metken and Jürgen Pech.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

The present painting was previously in the collection of Mr. Barnet Hodes, a lawyer and former counsel of the City of Chicago. Mr. Hodes was an important collector of surrealist art and a friend of William Copley, who first introduced him to Surrealism in the 1940s.

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