Details
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Initiale D
signed and dated 'max ernst. 65' (lower right)
frottage and crayon on paper
10 ½ x 8 1/8 in. (26.6 x 20.7 cm.)
Executed in 1965
Provenance
Collection of the artist.
Jean Hugues, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 20 June 1990, lot 425.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 7 February 2014, lot 31.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
W. Spies, S. & J. Metken, J. Pech, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-katalog, Werke 1964-1969, Cologne, 2007, no. 4097, p. 128 (illustrated).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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