Max Ernst - Evening & Day Editions London Thursday, January 23, 2025 | Phillips

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Lot offered with No Reserve

Devant mon aile droite couve le morne militaire (In Front of my Right Wing Broods the Military Gloom), plate 5 from Oiseaux en péril (Birds in Danger)

1975
Etching and aquatint in colours, on Arches paper folded (as issued), the full sheet, with text by Dorothea Tanning on the reverse.
I. 30.5 x 25.3 cm (12 x 9 7/8 in.)
S. (folded) 54.5 x 42.2 cm (21 1/2 x 16 5/8 in.)

Signed and numbered 50/100 in pencil (there were also 30 hors commerce impressions in Roman numerals and 100 on Japon nacré paper), published by Éditions Georges Visat, Paris, framed.

Estimate
£800 - 1,200 •‡♠

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