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Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Ohne Titel
signed 'max ernst' (on a blank leaf)
oil and tempera on paper laid down on a blank leaf opposite the title-page of the book Sept microbes vus à travers un tempérament by Max Ernst, Paris, 1953
Image: 3 x 2 5/8 in. (7.7 x 6.7 cm.)
Leaf: 7¼ x 5 1/8 in. (18.4 x 12.9 cm.)
Executed in 1968; the frontispiece signed, dedicated and with a small pen and ink sketch
Ohne Titel
signed 'max ernst' (on a blank leaf)
oil and tempera on paper laid down on a blank leaf opposite the title-page of the book Sept microbes vus à travers un tempérament by Max Ernst, Paris, 1953
Image: 3 x 2 5/8 in. (7.7 x 6.7 cm.)
Leaf: 7¼ x 5 1/8 in. (18.4 x 12.9 cm.)
Executed in 1968; the frontispiece signed, dedicated and with a small pen and ink sketch
Provenance
Jonny Waldberg, Paris, a gift from the artist for Christmas 1968.
Galerie Bel'Art, Stockholm.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 February 1986, lot 131.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Galerie Bel'Art, Stockholm.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 February 1986, lot 131.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
W. Spies (ed.), Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1964-1969, Cologne, 2007, no. 4464 (illustrated p. 312).
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