LOT DETAILS

Materials:

printed paper collage on typed paper (1); printed paper collage and frottage on typed paper (2)

Size Notes:

each

Exhibited:

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Boston Museum of Modern Art; Springfield Museum of Fine Arts; Milwaukee Art Institute; Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, University Art Gallery and San Francisco Museum of Art, Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, December 1936-September 1937, no. 298. Düsseldorf Kunsthalle; Frankfurt Kunstverein and Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Dada, Dokumente einer Bewegung, September 1958-February 1959, no. 315. New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Houston, The Menil Collection and The Art Institute of Chicago, Max Ernst, Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism, March-November 1993, p. 366, nos. 47-48.

Literature:

W. Spies and S. and G. Metken, Max Ernst, Werke, 1906-1925, Cologne, 1975, p. 169, nos. 334 and 335 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Tristan Tzara, Paris (acquired from the artists); sale, Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 12 June 1968, lot 286. Galerie Tarica, Paris (acquired at the above sale). Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners, circa 1970.