LOT DETAILS
Materials:
painted bronze
Size Notes:
36.2
Description:
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Markings:
signed for sale. This will usually be where it has guaranteed to the Seller that whatever the outcome of the auction
Exhibited:
Japan, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Max Ernst, October-December 1994, p. 26, no. 12 (illustrated).
Literature:
Max Ernst, Oeuvre Sculpt: 1913-1961, exh. cat., Le Point Cardinal, Paris, 1961, no. 32 (another cast illustrated). J. Russell, Max Ernst: Life and Work, New York, 1967, p. 329, no. 136 (another cast illustrated). U. Sneede, Malerei des Surralismus, Cologne, 1973, p. 195, no. 380 (another cast illustrated). P. Schamoni, Max Ernst Maxililiana: The Illegal Practice of Astronomy, Munich, 1974, p. 53 (another cast illustrated in situ in the artist's studio). W. Spies, S. and G. Metken and J. Pech, Max Ernst: Oeuvre-katalog, Werke, 1954-1963, Cologne, 1998, p. 378, no. 3777 I (another cast illustrated). W. Spies, Max Ernst: Sculpture, Maison, Paysages, exh. cat., Muse national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1998, p. 179 (another cast illustrated in situ in the artist's studio; another cast illustrated again p. 180). J. Pech, Max Ernst: Plastische Werke, Cologne, 2005, pp. 134-136 (other casts illustrated in color, pp. 134-137).
Provenance:
William N. Copley, New York; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 5 November 1979, lot 56. Helen Rivers, United States. Private collection, New York. Private collection, Paris.Blondeau & Associs, Paris. Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2002.