Etude pour Colombe noire et colombe pâle

Details

Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Etude pour Colombe noire et colombe pâle
frottage and pencil on paper
10 7/8 x 8½ in. (27.5 x 21.5 cm.)

Provenance

Louis Aragon & Elsa Triolet, Paris, by 1970.
A gift from the above to the family of the present owner by 1978.

Literature

E. Triolet, Oeuvres romanesques croisées d'Elsa Triolet et Aragon. 36. Écoutez-voir, Paris, 1970, p. 351 (illustrated p. 180).

Special notice

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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 Mertken and Jürgen Pech.

This work is related to Colombe noir et colombe pâle, an oil and collage from 1925 (Spies 767; Private collection, Mexico).

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