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Materials:
bronze with brown patina
Size Notes:
100.5
Description:
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Markings:
signed 'Max Ernst'
Exhibited:
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, 1985, p. 58, no. 56 (illustrated, fig. 46).
Literature:
M. Ernst, Beyond Painting and Other Writings about the Artist and his Friends, New York, 1948, p. 78 (plaster illustrated, p. 79). C. Giedion-Welcker, Contemporary Sculpture: An Evolution in Volume and Space, New York, 1955, p. 244 (another cast illustrated). P. Waldberg, Max Ernst, Paris, 1958, p. 409 (another cast illustrated). F. Hazan, Dictionnaire de la sculpture moderne, Paris, 1960, p. 88 (another cast illustrated; titled Le roi jouant aux checs avec sa reine). J. Russell, Max Ernst: Life and Work, New York, 1967, no. 147 (another cast illustrated). W. Spies, S. and G. Metken, Max Ernst: Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, p. 86, no. 2465,I (another cast illustrated). W. Spies, Max Ernst: Sculptures, maisons, paysages, exh. cat., Muse national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1998 (plaster illustrated, p. 135; another cast illustrated).
Provenance:
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York (probably acquired from the artist). Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro, Chicago (acquired from the above); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 1992, lot 50.Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.