Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Lot 527

Max Ernst (1891-1976)

Lit-cage et son paravent

Closed6 September 2011

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Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Lit-cage et son paravent
Mixed media construction
Height: 85in.; Width: 103in.; Depth: 102in. (Height: 216cm.; Width: 261cm.; Depth: 261cm.)
Conceived in 1974

The New York Times Magazine, 11 January 1976, pp. 67-70, illustrated (no. 1 from this edition, formerly owned by Nelson Rockefeller).
Newsweek, May 26, 1975, (The Rockefeller bed illustrated p. 34).
E. Quinn, Max Ernst, 1977, no. 526, (illustrated p. 407 the 1973 painting, Several Animals, One Illiterate, part of which was used for the lithograph suspended from footboard)
Exh. Cat., Calgary, Glenbow Museum, Max Ernst, From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Ernst, 1980, no. 12, p. 23, illustrated (the 1948 painting, The Blind Swimmer, on which the lithograph attached to headboard is based).