Max Ernst

Illustrationsvorlage zu B. Pérets "La brebis galante"
1949

paper collage and Indian ink on paper

24 × 19.2 cm / 9 7/16 × 7 9/16 in

Signed also verso by a third hand “La Brebis Gal. 126 (après ch. 12)" inscribed

Catalogue Raisonné by Spies/Metken 1987 no. 2727

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Provenance

Ragnar von Holten, Stockholm; Galerie Bel'Art, Stockholm; Private Collection Stockholm

Exhibitions

Haus der Kunst/Nationalgalerie, "Max Ernst. Retrospektive 1979", München/Berlin 1979
Galerie Bel'Art, "Max Ernst", Stockholm 1976
Moderna Museet/Göteborgs Konsthall/Sundsvalls Museum/Malmö Museum, "Surrealism?", Stockholm/Göteborg/Sundsvall/Malmö 1970

Literature

Galerie Ludorff, "Kunst im Rheinland", Düsseldorf 2023, S. 21
Galerie Ludorff, "Drawn World: Zeichnungen von Menzel bis Warhol", Düsseldorf 2019, S. 81
Galerie Boisserée, "Max Ernst. Skulpturen, Arbeiten auf Papier, Radierungen und Lithographien", Köln 2013, no. 3
Werner Spies/Sigrid und Günter Metken, "Max Ernst Œuvre-Katalog Werke 1939-1953", Bd. V, Houston/Köln 1987, no. 2727, p. 223
Werner Spies (Hg.), "Max Ernst. Retrospektive 1979", Ausst.-Kat. Haus der Kunst, München 1979, p. 178
Galerie Bel'Art, "Max Ernst", Ausst.-Kat., Stockholm 1976, no. 2
Werner Spies, "Max Ernst – Collagen. Inventar und Widerspruch", Köln 1974, no. 49
Moderna Museet, Stockholm/Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg/Sundsvalls Museum, Sundsvall/Malmö Museum, Malmö, "Surrealism?", Ausst.-Kat., Stockholm 1970, no. 28, ill. p. 14
vgl. Benjamin Péret/Max Ernst, "La Brebis galante", Paris 1949, p. 111
Cahiers d'Art 24/1 (1949), p. 349

About Max Ernst

As a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, co-founder of the Cologne Dada Group, Max Ernst is also one of the most important members of the surrealist movement in Paris.