Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming volume of the Max Ernst catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared by Werner Spies in collaboration with Sigrid Metken and Jürgen Pech.
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Les fleurs enchantées
Details
Max Ernst (German, 1891-1976)
Les fleurs enchantées
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
pen and ink on paper
8 ¼ x 6 1/8 in. (21 x 15.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1924.
Les fleurs enchantées
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
pen and ink on paper
8 ¼ x 6 1/8 in. (21 x 15.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1924.
Provenance
with Galleria Ciranna, Milan, by 1964.
Acquired from the above and thence by descent to the present owner.
Acquired from the above and thence by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
Milan, Galleria Ciranna, Albori del Surrealismo nei Disegni di Max Ernst, February 1964, no. 14 (illustrated).
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