Lot 88
Lot 88
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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

Le rire des poètes

Price Realised GBP 3,750
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GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000
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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

Le rire des poètes

Price Realised GBP 3,750
Price Realised GBP 3,750
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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Le rire des poètes
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
gouache and paper collage on paper laid down on the artist's mount
image: 3 x 2 in. (7.4 x 5.5 cm.)
artist's mount: 514 x 4 in. (14.2 x 10.2 cm.)
Executed in 1968
Provenance
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York.
Private collection, Athens, by whom acquired from the above in the 1970s.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2019.
Literature
H. Parisot, Le rire des poètes: Anthologie de la poésie humoristique, Paris, 1969, p. 178 (illustrated in an earlier state p. 179).
W. Spies, S. & G. Metken & J. Pech, Max Ernst: Œuvre-Katalog, vol. VII, Werke 1964-1969, Cologne, 2007, no. 4416, p. 288 (illustrated in an earlier state).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Alexander Iolas, Max Ernst: Journal d'un Astronaute millénaire, March - April 1969, p. 15 (illustrated in an earlier state).
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