Live Auction 1132Impressionist/Modern Works on Paper
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Lot 149

Max Ernst (1891-1976)

Illustrationsvorlage zu "Partition", S. 53

Closed19 June 2013

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GBP 17,500

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Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Illustrationsvorlage zu "Partition", S. 53
signed and dated 'max ernst 49' (lower right)
paper collage and pen and India ink on card
10¾ x 8½ in. (27.2 x 21.6 cm.)
Executed in 1949

Galleria La Medusa, Rome (no. 1235).
Private collection, Switzerland, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

This work is part of a series of collages that Max Ernst executed to illustrate Joë Bousquet's book on the artist, Max Ernst, Partition (Paris, 1950, p. 53).