Name: Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Brand: Volto
Price: 6000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Volto
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with glass maker's mark 'Max Ernst 1964 1/3 FA 1964' (on the reverse of the glass)
colored glass and wood assemblage; wired for electricity
Glass: 8⁷⁄₈ x 6¼ in. (22.5 x 15.9 cm.)
Wood mount: 16¹⁄₈ x 14⁵⁄₈ in. (41 x 37.1 cm.)
Conceived and executed in 1964

Weintraub Art Center, Ltd., New York.
Julius Reiner, New York (gift from the above, November 1967).
Private collection, New York (by descent from the above); sale, Christie's, New York, 6 November 2008, lot 236.
Private collection, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

(probably) Venice, La Fucina degli Angeli, Mostra internazionale del vetro d'arte, June-July 1964, no. 27.
(probably) Rome, Galleria L'Obelisco, Sculture in Vetro, July 1965, no. 22.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Sculpture in Glass, November 1965-January 1966.

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Dr. Jürgen Pech has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

In 1965, Peggy Guggenheim organized an international exhibition of glass designs by the leading contemporary artists of the day including Jean (Hans) Arp, Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, Pablo Picasso and Ernst, to be realized at Egidio Costantini's foundry Fucina degli Angeli in the tradition of Venetian glass making. Guggenheim spoke of this daring attempt to encourage leading contemporary artists to work in a medium that was considered staid and overtly commerical stating, "it was possible to create a middle-ground, half-way between sculpture and stained glass, and that that middle ground would tempt the great painters of the day to try the new medium" (quoted in Sculture in vetro: La Fucina degli Angeli, exh. cat., Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome, 1965, n.p.).