
Lot 28*,AR
MAX ERNST(1891-1976)Il prédit des éclipses des galaxies
8 March 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £14,000 inc. premium
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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Il prédit des éclipses des galaxies
signed 'Max Ernst' (lower right) and inscribed 'Eclipse' (lower left)
collage, pastel and pencil on blue paper
27 x 32.9cm (10 5/8 x 12 15/16in).
Executed in 1968
signed 'Max Ernst' (lower right) and inscribed 'Eclipse' (lower left)
collage, pastel and pencil on blue paper
27 x 32.9cm (10 5/8 x 12 15/16in).
Executed in 1968
Footnotes
Provenance
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 10 December 1997, lot 386.
Galleria Blu, Milan (by 2000).
Anon. sale, Il Ponte, Milan, 16 December 2014, lot 274.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Max Ernst, Journal d'un Astronaute millénaire, 11 March – 12 April 1969.
Milan, Galleria Blu, Max Ernst un monde perdu, 4 April – 8 July 2000.
Literature
W. Spies, S. & G. Metken & J. Pech, Max Ernst Oeuvre-Katalog, Vol. VII, Werke 1964-1969, Cologne, 2007, no. 4395 (illustrated p. 277; incorrect dimensions).