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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
(i) Zu: Pierre Mabille Le Miroir du Merveilleux (To Pierre Mabille The Mirror of the Marvellous)
(ii) Cosmos
(i) numbered 'bon à tirer' (lower left), signed 'Max Ernst' (lower right)
(ii) numbered '5/59' (lower left), signed 'Max Ernst' (lower right)
(i) etching on paper
(ii) etching with aquatint in colour on paper
(i) image: 19.5 x 14cm.
sheet: 24.5 x 18.5cm.
(ii) image: 20.5 x 16cm.
sheet: 44 x 32cm.
(i) Executed in 1962, this work is a printer's proof, besides the edition of ninety-nine and nineteen Roman numbered prints, published by Les Editions de Minuit, Paris
(ii) Executed in 1963, this work is number five from an edition of fifty-nine, published by Georges Visat, Paris
Provenance
each: Acquired by the present owner in 1964.Literature
(i) W. Spies (ed.), Max Ernst Oeuvre - Katalog. Das Graphische Werk, Cologne 1975, no. 84 (illustrated p. 83).
(ii) W. Spies (ed.), Max Ernst Oeuvre - Katalog. Das Graphische Werk, Cologne 1975, no. 93 (illustrated).Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
Details
MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
(i) Zu: Pierre Mabille Le Miroir du Merveilleux (To Pierre Mabille The Mirror of the Marvellous)
(ii) Cosmos
(i) numbered 'bon à tirer' (lower left), signed 'Max Ernst' (lower right)
(ii) numbered '5/59' (lower left), signed 'Max Ernst' (lower right)
(i) etching on paper
(ii) etching with aquatint in colour on paper
(i) image: 19.5 x 14cm.
sheet: 24.5 x 18.5cm.
(ii) image: 20.5 x 16cm.
sheet: 44 x 32cm.
(i) Executed in 1962, this work is a printer's proof, besides the edition of ninety-nine and nineteen Roman numbered prints, published by Les Editions de Minuit, Paris
(ii) Executed in 1963, this work is number five from an edition of fifty-nine, published by Georges Visat, Paris
Provenance
each: Acquired by the present owner in 1964.Literature
(i) W. Spies (ed.), Max Ernst Oeuvre - Katalog. Das Graphische Werk, Cologne 1975, no. 84 (illustrated p. 83).
(ii) W. Spies (ed.), Max Ernst Oeuvre - Katalog. Das Graphische Werk, Cologne 1975, no. 93 (illustrated).Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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