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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Paysage avec lac et chimères
signed ‘Max Ernst’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 x 26 in. (50.8 x 66 cm.)
Painted circa 1940
Provenance
Peggy Guggenheim, New York.
Dwight Ripley, New York.
E.V. Thaw & Co., New York.
Leonard C. Yaseen, New York.
Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York.
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York.
Gerrit Lansing, Connecticut.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 19 May 1981, lot 355.
Private collection, United States (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1991, lot 35.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 9 May 2000, lot 509.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
W. Spies, Max Ernst Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, p. 27, no. 2354 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Surrealism in Art, February-March 1975.
Seattle, Experience Music Project, DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein, April 2006-January 2007, pp. 22-23 (illustrated in color).
Maine, Portland Art Museum; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; New Orleans Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum, Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, October 2015-May 2017, pp. 30 and 132, no. 32 (illustrated in color, p. 133).
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