Live Auction 13486The Art of the Surreal
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Lot 109 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION

Max Ernst (1891-1976)

Product of France

Closed28 February 2017

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GBP 81,250

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Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Product of France
signed 'max ernst' (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed 'max ernst 1935 Product of France' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
7 5/8 x 9 3/8 in. (19.2 x 24 cm.)
Painted in 1935

André Bénéteau, São Paulo.
Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milan, by 1970.
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York.
Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva (no. 858).
Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in 1974.

Specialist note

'Just as a poet listens to his involuntary thought processes and notes them down, so a painter projects on paper or canvas what is suggested to him by his visual imagination.’
- Max Ernst