May 02, 2024 - Sale 2667

Sale 2667 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 22,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
MAX ERNST (1891 - 1976, GERMAN/AMERICAN)
Saint Satyre, Priez pour nous.

Collage with pencil, gouache and watercolor on illustration board, 1970. Signed, Max Ernst, lower left. 450x317 mm; 17¾x12½ inches, (board). 317x178 mm; 12½x7 inches, (image).

Provenance: The Destina Foundation, New York; Kasmin, New York.

Exhibited: Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris, "Max Ernst: Lieux communs," 1971; Kunsthalle Tübingen; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunstmuseum Bern and Düsseldorf, "Max Ernst: Collagen," September 17, 1988 - April 23, 1989, no. 252; Kasmin, New York, "Max Ernst: Collages," January 23 - February 29, 2020.

Literature: Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris "Max Ernst: Lieux communs, DéCervelages," exh. cat., 1971, p. 4; Spies, Werner, "Max Ernst: Collages, The Invention of the Surrealist Universe," New York, 1988, pp. 207 and 528, pl. 113 (illustrated in color).