Mar 08, 2012 - Sale 2272

Sale 2272 - Lot 611

Unsold
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
MAX ERNST
La loterie du jardin zoologique.

Etching and aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache on graish cream Ingres wove paper, 1951. 120x90 mm; 4 3/4x3 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 3/6 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Georges Visat, Paris. Published by Librarie Les Pas Perdue, Paris. From the same-titled book. A superb, richly-inked impression; extremely scarce with the artist's hand coloring. Spies/Leppien 53.