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Max Ernst

Papillon contribuable

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976


Papillon contribuable

signed max ernst and dated 65 (lower right); titled (lower left)

oil and collage on canvas

28¾ by 23⅝ in.

73 by 59.9 cm.

Executed in 1965.

Galerie Alphonse Chave, Vence
Hôtel George V, Paris, 10 June 1973, lot 13
Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva
Brook Street Gallery, London
Gregoire Galleries, New York
Jean M. Zimmerman, New York
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's, Paris, 30 May 2012, lot 3 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Karl Horbach, IKI '73, Internationaler Markt für aktuelle Kunst Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf 1973, p. 296
Edward Quinn, Max Ernst. Textes de Max Ernst, Paris 1976, pp. 366-67, illustrated
Werner Spies, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1964-1969, Cologne 2007, no. 4038, p. 99, illustrated
Vence, Galerie Alphonse Chave, Max Ernst ne peint plus!... Peintures récentes de décembre 1972 à janvier 1973, 1973, n.n.
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Exposition Max Ernst. Peintures-Sculptures-Collages-Frottages, 1977, no. 31
Sète, Musée Paul Valéry, Max Ernst - Yves Tanguy: Deux Vision du Surréalisme, 2016