Migration

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Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Migration
signed and dated 'max ernst 63' (lower right)' signed and dated 'max ernst 1963' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
10 5/8 x 13¾ in. (27.2 x 35 cm.)
Painted in 1963

Provenance

Dorothea Tanning, New York, by descent from the artist.
Private collection, New York, by whom acquired from the above in 1993.

Literature

J. Russell, Max Ernst, Leben und Werk, Cologne, 1966, no. 108, p. 351 (illustrated).
W. Spies, Die Rückkehr der schönen Gärtnerin, Max Ernst 1950-1970, Cologne, 1971, p. 79 (illustrated).
W. Spies, S.& G. Metken, Max Ernst, Werke 1954-1963, Cologne 1998, no. 3678, p. 326 (illustrated; with incorrect medium).

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Lot Essay

‘Without a word and in any weather: magic light. Without a word and in any weather: obscure lessons’
(Max Ernst from the poem ‘The Hundred-Headless Woman’ [1924/41] in Surrealism, M. Caws, ed., London & New York, 2004, p. 226).

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