Live Auction 18504The Landscape of a Mind: A Private Collector's Surreal Vision
MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Lot 522

MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

Pays sage II

Closed20 June 2019

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GBP 15,000

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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Pays sage II
etching, 1923, on simili-Japan paper, a fine impression of this rare print, signed, annotated and numbered 'no. 4 landschaft' in pencil, from the edition of approximately seven impressions
Plate 175 x 123 mm., Sheet 320 x 248 mm.

Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 20 November 1989, lot 154.
Gilbert E. Kaplan (1941-2016), New York; Christie's, New York, 1-2 November 2016, lot 36.
Acquired from the above.

Specialist note

To our knowledge, only one other impression of this very rare and early print has been offered at auction in the last thirty years.