MAX ERNST German, 1891-1976
17 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches
Provenance
Collection Simone Breton-Collinet, Paris (before 1962)
Galleria Galatea, Turin
Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris
Collection Bénédicte Pesle, Paris
Christie’s Paris, 18th October 2018, ‘She Was a Giant - Collection Bénédicte Pesle’
Private collection
Exhibitions
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Zurich, Kunsthaus, Max Ernst, Dec. 1962 - April l 1963, p. 54, no. 171
Oswego, N.Y., State University College; Richmond, VA, Richmond Artists Association; Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Busch Reisinger Museum; Genesco, N.Y., State University College; Ithaca, NY Cornell University, White Museum of Art; Edinboro, PA, Edinboro State College & The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Max Ernst, Works on paper, Jan-Dec 1968, no. 14
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Max Ernst, Målningar, collage, frottage, teckningar, grafik, böcker, skulpturer 1917-1969, Sept - Nov 1969, p. 79, no. 144 (ill. p. 36; titled Tête).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Max Ernst, November 1969 - January 1970, p. 26, no. 128 (ill. p. 37; titled Tête).
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Max Ernst, January - March 1970, no. 178
Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Max Ernst: 10 x Max Ernst; eine didaktische zum Verständnis seiner Kunst, November 1978 - January 1979, no. 122
Literature
Werner Spies, Max Ernst – Werke 1925-1929, Menil Foundation & Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne, 1976, No. 919, ill. p.66
John Russell, Max Ernst, Leben und Werk, Cologne, 1966, p. 338, no. IX (ill., p. 93, titled Tête)Frantisek Šmejkal, Surrealist drawings, London, 1982, no. 10, ill.