Max Ernst - Maximiliana: Max Ernst from the Collection of Peter Schamoni, Online Auction London Wednesday, December 1, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
    Galerie Tarica, Paris
    Galerie Thomas, Munich
    Peter Schamoni, Munich

  • Exhibited

    Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, 36 dessins pour une Histoire Naturelle de Max Ernst, 24 April - 15 May 1926 (frottage exhibited)
    Brussels, Vierge Poupine, Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle, 16 - 29 October 1926, no. 1 (frottage exhibited)
    Brühl, Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Entdeckungsfahrten zu Max Ernst / Die Sammlung Peter Schamoni, 24 February – 23 June 2013, p. 175 (frottage and collotype exhibited and illustrated, pp. 66-67)

  • Literature

    Max Ernst, Beyond Painting and other Writings by the Artist and his Friends, New York, 1948, p. 126 (frottage illustrated)
    Max Ernst, Gemälde und Graphik 1920-1950, exh. cat., Brühle, Schloß Augustusburg, 16 March - 14 April 1951, no. 1, p. 44 (frottage illustrated)
    Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle, exh. cat., Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne, 1964, no. 1, p. 20 (frottage illustrated)
    Eva Petrová, Max Ernst, Prague, 1965, p. 26 (frottage illustrated)
    Werner Spies, Max Ernst, Frottagen, Stuttgart, 1968, no. 4 (frottage illustrated)
    Werner Spies, Sigrid and Günter Metken, eds., Max Ernst OEuvreKatalog. Max Ernst Werke 1925-1929, Cologne, 1976, no. 790, p. 1 (collotype illustrated)
    Jeanne Bucher: Une galerie d'avant-garde 1925-1946 de Max Ernst à de Staël, exh. cat., l'Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg, 1994, p. 88 (collotype illustrated)
    David Hopkins, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared, Oxford, 1998, no. 103, p. 159 (collotype illustrated)

MAXIMILIANA: MAX ERNST FROM THE COLLECTION OF PETER SCHAMONI

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Two works: (i-ii) La mer et le pluie (template for 'Histoire Naturelle', sheet I)

(i) graphite frottage on paper in 2 parts, with accompanying letter
(ii) collotype of whole frottage on paper

(i) frottages
22.4 x 11.8 cm (8 7/8 x 4 5/8 in.)
18.8 cm x 26.1 cm (7 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
(ii) collotype
49.9 x 32.2 cm (19 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.)

Frottage and collotype executed in 1925.

Estimate
£3,500 - 5,000 ‡♠

Sold for £15,120

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Maximiliana: Max Ernst from the Collection of Peter Schamoni, Online Auction

Online Auction 1 - 8 December 2021