May 02, 2002 - Sale 1934

Sale 1934 - Lot 523

Price Realized: $ 3,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MAX ERNST
Deux Figures<>.

Color etching and aquatint printed in black and yellowish green, 1960. 154x100 mm; 6¼x4 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 119. Signed and numbered 1/1 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Lacourière and Frélaut, Paris. Published by Imprimerie Union, Paris. From Léonard de Vinci, Prophéties sur les Animaux raisonnables et irraisonnables<>. A superb impression of this scarce proof.

We have not found another impression from the published edition at auction in the past 20 years. Spies/Leppien 76.