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Le blanc du ciel
Details
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Le blanc du ciel
signed 'max ernst' (lower right); signed, dated and titled 'Le blanc du ciel max ernst 1950' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
10 5/8 x 13¾ in. (27 x 35 cm.)
Painted in 1950
Le blanc du ciel
signed 'max ernst' (lower right); signed, dated and titled 'Le blanc du ciel max ernst 1950' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
10 5/8 x 13¾ in. (27 x 35 cm.)
Painted in 1950
Provenance
Anonymous sale, 'Au profit de Georges Bataille', Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17 March 1961, no. 5.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1970, no. 58.
Private collection, Paris.
Galleria de Foscherari, Bologna (no. 8699 Pr).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1970s.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1970, no. 58.
Private collection, Paris.
Galleria de Foscherari, Bologna (no. 8699 Pr).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1970s.
Literature
W. Spies, S. & G. Metken, Max Ernst, Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2863 (illustrated p. 287).
Special notice
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