Roi, reine et fou

Details

Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Roi, reine et fou
signed and numbered 'Max Ernst E.A. 4/8' (on the top of the base) and stamped 'Cire Valsuani Foundeur' (on the back of the base)
bronze
5¼ x 11¾ x 3¾ in. (13.25 x 29.75 x 9.5 cm.)
Conceived 1929-1930 and cast in the early 1970s; This sculpture is number four of eight artist's proofs (there was also a numbered edition of 35).

Literature

W. Spies, Max Ernst, Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 1683, p. 61 (another cast illustrated).

Exhibited

St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dali Museum; Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art; Dennis, Massachusetts, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 1940s, November 1998-September 2000, p. 45 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

The individual figures in this sculpture were originally designed in 1929-1930. In the early 1970's, Ernst authorized the Societé de Diffusion d'Oeuvres Plastiques et Multiples, Paris, to cast a bronze edition.

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