Details
MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Gai
signed, numbered and inscribed on the back of the base 'Max Ernst 4/9 Susse Fondeur Paris'--bronze with black patina
Height: 14½in. (36.8cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1935; this bronze version cast in 1956, number four in an edition of nine with four artist's proofs
Gai
signed, numbered and inscribed on the back of the base 'Max Ernst 4/9 Susse Fondeur Paris'--bronze with black patina
Height: 14½in. (36.8cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1935; this bronze version cast in 1956, number four in an edition of nine with four artist's proofs
Provenance
Schwartz collection, Chicago
Robert M. Light, New York and Santa Barbara (acquired by the present owner)
Robert M. Light, New York and Santa Barbara (acquired by the present owner)
Literature
J. Russell, Max Ernst: Life and Work, New York, 1967, no. 138 (another cast illustrated)
W. Spies, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Cologne, 1979 (Werke 1929-1938), no. 2160.I (another cast illustrated, p. 309)
W. Spies, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Cologne, 1979 (Werke 1929-1938), no. 2160.I (another cast illustrated, p. 309)