MAX ERNST (1891-1976) Deux et deux font un
painted bronze
Height: 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1956; this bronze version cast in the artist's lifetime
MAX ERNST (1891-1976) Deux et deux font un
painted bronze
Height: 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1956; this bronze version cast in the artist's lifetime
William N. Copley, New York; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 5 November 1979, lot 56. Helen Rivers, United States. Private collection, New York. Private collection, Paris. Blondeau & Associés, Paris. Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2002.
Max Ernst, Oeuvre Sculpté: 1913-1961, exh. cat., Le Point Cardinal, Paris, 1961, no. 32 (another cast illustrated). J. Russell, Max Ernst: Life and Work, New York, 1967, p. 329, no. 136 (another cast illustrated). U. Sneede, Malerei des Surréalismus, Cologne, 1973, p. 195, no. 380 (another cast illustrated). P. Schamoni, Max Ernst Maxililiana: The Illegal Practice of Astronomy, Munich, 1974, p. 53 (another cast illustrated in situ in the artist's studio). W. Spies, S. and G. Metken and J. Pech, Max Ernst: Oeuvre-katalog, Werke, 1954-1963, Cologne, 1998, p. 378, no. 3777 I (another cast illustrated). W. Spies, Max Ernst: Sculpture, Maison, Paysages, exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1998, p. 179 (another cast illustrated in situ in the artist's studio; another cast illustrated again p. 180). J. Pech, Max Ernst: Plastische Werke, Cologne, 2005, pp. 134-136 (other casts illustrated in color, pp. 134-137).
Japan, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Max Ernst, October-December 1994, p. 26, no. 12 (illustrated).
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