PROPERTY FROM A NOTABLE PRIVATE COLLECTION
Max Ernst (1891-1976)

La comète affolée

Price realised USD 27,500
Estimate
USD 20,000 – USD 30,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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Max Ernst (1891-1976)

La comète affolée

Price realised USD 27,500
Price realised USD 27,500
Details
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
La comète affolée
signed and dated 'max ernst 51' (lower right)
pastel on blue paper
12 ¾ x 19 ½ in. (32.4 x 49.6 cm.)
Drawn in 1951
Provenance
Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander L. Berliner, New York (acquired from the above, 1961).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1994, lot 265.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
Literature
W. Spies and S. and G. Metken, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke, 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, p. 298, no. 2884 (incorrectly illustrated, p. 297, no. 2883).

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