Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming eighth volume of the Max Ernst Catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken and Jürgen Pech.
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Project for 'What is Surrealism?'
Details
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Project for 'What is Surrealism?'
one sheet signed 'max ernst' (lower right); a further sheet inscribed 'Surrealism is? emplacement des lettres en bleu clair (ou rouge?)' (lower right); a further sheet inscribed 'SURREALISM IS?' (within the composition)
four sheets, two of which are paper collage and gouache on paper, the other two pencil on paper, in a three-dimensional frame
the largest sheet: 8 7/8 x 6¾ in. (22.5 x 17 cm.)
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Project for 'What is Surrealism?'
one sheet signed 'max ernst' (lower right); a further sheet inscribed 'Surrealism is? emplacement des lettres en bleu clair (ou rouge?)' (lower right); a further sheet inscribed 'SURREALISM IS?' (within the composition)
four sheets, two of which are paper collage and gouache on paper, the other two pencil on paper, in a three-dimensional frame
the largest sheet: 8 7/8 x 6¾ in. (22.5 x 17 cm.)
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Provenance
Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 29 November 1989, lot 534.
Galerie Thessa Herold, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1997.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 29 November 1989, lot 534.
Galerie Thessa Herold, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1997.
Literature
L. Derenthal & J. Pech, Max Ernst, Paris, 1992 (illustrated p. 151).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
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Please note that this work was executed in 1936.
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