Max Ernst (1891-1976) and Yvette Cauquil-Prince (1928-2005)

Cocktail Drinkers

Details

Max Ernst (1891-1976) and Yvette Cauquil-Prince (1928-2005)
Cocktail Drinkers
with signature 'Max Ernst' (in the weave lower right); titled, numbered and signed by the master-weaver 'Cocktail Drinkers 1/1 Y. Cauquil-Prince' (on a label attached to the reverse)
hand-woven wool tapestry
83 x 50 in. (211 x 127 cm.)
Executed in 1975 in an edition of two numbered 0/1-1/1

Provenance

Yvette Cauquil-Prince, Paris.

Exhibited

Milwaukee Art Center; University of California at Irvine Arts Gallery and Philadephia Civic Center, Max Ernst Woven by Yvette Cauquil-Prince, February-November 1978, no. 8 (illustrated in color).

Lot Essay

This tapestry is based on the 1945 painting The Cocktail-Drinker by Max Ernst (Spies, Werke 1939-1953, no. 2499; coll. Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf). It was a collaborative work woven by Yvette Cauquil-Prince under the supervision of Max Ernst.

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