Live Auction 19520Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale
MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Lot 316 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

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Closed24 March 2021

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GBP 22,500

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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
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signed 'max ernst' (on the artist's mount)
encaustic, grattage and wash on paper laid down on the artist's mount
Image: 6 7/8 x 9 ¼ in. (17.5 x 23.5 cm.)
Artist's Mount: 7 1/8 x 9 ¼ in. (18 x 23.6 cm.)
Executed in 1945

Galerie Ile-de-France, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 8 December 1966, lot 242.
D. Hughes, by whom acquired at the above sale.
J. Kasmin, London.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 2 December 1971, lot 123.
Modarco S.A., Geneva, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Brook Street Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale, Galerie Motte, Geneva, 16-18 June 1972, lot 88c.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 October 1987, lot 184.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28 October 1995, lot 48.
Acquired at the above sale and thence by descent to the present owner.