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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE DOROTHEA TANNING
Lot 16*,AR

MAX ERNST
(1891-1976)
L'Œil du peintre

25 March 2021, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£50,000 - £70,000

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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

L'Œil du peintre
signed and dated 'Max Ernst, 1966' (lower right) and inscribed 'L'œil du peintre' (lower left)
oil and collage on paper
78.1 x 57.2cm (30 3/4 x 22 1/2in).
Executed in 1965-1966

Footnotes

Provenance
Max Ernst Collection.
Dorothea Tanning Collection, US (by descent from the above).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited
Vence, Galerie Alphonse Chave, Max Ernst, Peintures, Collages, récents, 13 September – 15 November 1966, no. 18 (illustrated).

Literature
W. Spies, S. & G. Metken & J. Pech, Max Ernst Œuvre-Katalog, Vol. VII, Werke 1964-1969, Cologne, 2007, no. 4042 (illustrated p. 101; dated 1965).

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