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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Lot 603 THE SURREALIST WORLD OF ROSALIND GERSTEN JACOBS AND MELVIN JACOBS

MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

Illustrationsvorlage zu 'Partition', S.77

Closed14 May 2022

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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Illustrationsvorlage zu 'Partition', S.77
signed and dated 'max ernst 49' (lower right)
pen and India ink and paper collage on paper
10 3⁄4 x 8 5⁄8 in. (27 x 21.8 cm.)
Executed in 1949

(probably) Acquired from the artist through William and Noma Copley by the late owners, circa 1960.

Specialist note

This work is part of a series of collages that Ernst executed to illustrate Joë Bousquet's monograph Max Ernst: Partition, Paris, 1950.