18K textured gold (customs mark), 1972, signed Max Ernst, maker’s mark, numbered

Size/Dimensions 9.6 x 9.6 cm
Gross weight: 285.6 grams

Exhibition catalogue of the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland), 11 August-23 September 1990, plate 77 for a similar mask.
Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog : Werke 1954-1963, Houston TX, Menil Foundation, 1998, p. 389, n°3795 “Mask” : for the original model, realised in plaster in 1959.

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