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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN COLLECTION
MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Masque aux yeux invisibles
Details
MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Masque aux yeux invisibles
signed and numbered 'max ernst 4⁄8' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark and stamped 'Susse Frères Paris RESYRGAM' (on the side of the base)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 34 ½ in. (87 cm.)
Conceived circa 1938-1939; this bronze version cast circa 1992-1993
Masque aux yeux invisibles
signed and numbered 'max ernst 4⁄8' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark and stamped 'Susse Frères Paris RESYRGAM' (on the side of the base)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 34 ½ in. (87 cm.)
Conceived circa 1938-1939; this bronze version cast circa 1992-1993
Provenance
Galerie de Bruin, Hilvarenbeek.
Anon. sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, 4 December 2001, lot 143.
Private collection (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6 May 2004, lot 359.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.
Anon. sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, 4 December 2001, lot 143.
Private collection (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6 May 2004, lot 359.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.
Literature
G. Hugnet, "Max Ernst" in Cahiers d'Art, vol. 14, 1939, pp. 140-145, nos. 5-10 (cement version illustrated, p. 145).
G. Metken, "Paramythen: Max Ernsts Haus in Saint-Martin d’Ardèche" in Pantheon, vol. 32, no. 3, July-September 1974, pp. 289-297, no. 12 (cement version illustrated, p. 293).
J.-L. Peyromaure, "La maison sculptée de Max Ernst" in Distance, Magazine de Voyages UTA & Sofitel-UTH, May-June 1982, pp. 49-51 (cement version illustrated, p. 49).
W. Spies and G. Metken, Max Ernst: Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, vol. 5, p. 2, no. 2305 (cement version illustrated).
S. Schmid, Loplops Geheimnis: Max Ernst und Leonora Carrington in Südfrankreich, Frankfurt, 2002, p. 146 (cement version illustrated).
G. Metken, "Paramythen: Max Ernsts Haus in Saint-Martin d’Ardèche" in Pantheon, vol. 32, no. 3, July-September 1974, pp. 289-297, no. 12 (cement version illustrated, p. 293).
J.-L. Peyromaure, "La maison sculptée de Max Ernst" in Distance, Magazine de Voyages UTA & Sofitel-UTH, May-June 1982, pp. 49-51 (cement version illustrated, p. 49).
W. Spies and G. Metken, Max Ernst: Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, vol. 5, p. 2, no. 2305 (cement version illustrated).
S. Schmid, Loplops Geheimnis: Max Ernst und Leonora Carrington in Südfrankreich, Frankfurt, 2002, p. 146 (cement version illustrated).
Further details
This work will be included in the forthcoming volume of the Max Ernst catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared by Werner Spies in collaboration with Sigrid Metken and Jürgen Pech.
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