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    Modern and Contemporary Art

    Amsterdam

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    4 June 1997

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    Lot 273

    Max Ernst (1891-1976)

    Janus

    Price realised

    NLG 71,498

    Estimate

    NLG 40,000 - NLG 60,000

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    Max Ernst (1891-1976)
    Janus
    signed, numbered and with foundry mark on the base Max Ernst, 10/18, A. Valsuari Cire perdue
    bronze
    45 cm high
    Executed in 1973 and cast in 1975

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Edward Quinn, Max Ernst, Paris 1976, p. 23 (illustration of another cast) ,p. 18, p. 233, illustration of fragments of the plaster
    exhibition catalogue, Max Ernst, Sculpture 1934-1974, Cavaliero Fine Arts, New York, 1987, p. 44, no. 57 (illustration of another cast)


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