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

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection
    Peter Schamoni, Munich

  • Exhibited

    Los Angeles, The Copley Galleries, Max Ernst, 30 years of his work, a Survey, 10 January - 20 February 1949, p. 31 (illustrated)
    Brühl, Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Entdeckungsfahrten zu Max Ernst / Die Sammlung Peter Schamoni, 24 February - 23 June 2013, p. 176 (illustrated, pp. 102-103)

  • Literature

    Das Kunstwerk, issue 4, 1956-7, p. 4 (illustrated)
    Patrick Waldberg, Max Ernst, Paris, 1958, p. 71 (illustrated and titled Paramythe)
    Vernissage, Baden-Baden, 1, issue 1, February 1960, p. 4 (illustrated)
    Max Ernst, Écrits & OEuvre gravé, exh. cat., Bibliothèque Municipale, Tours; Le Point Cardinal, Paris, 1963, no. 29, p. 20 (illustrated p. 22 and titled Paramythen)
    John Russell, Max Ernst, Leben und Werk, London, 1967, p. 354 (illustrated p. 172)
    Michel Sanouillet and Robert Lebel, metafisica dada, surrealismo, parte seconda, l'arte moderna 20, Mailand, 1967, no. 29, p. 22 (illustrated)
    Pantheon, 32, issue 3, July - September 1974, p. 291 (illustrated)
    Werner Spies, Max Ernst - Collagen, Inventar und Widerspruch, Cologne, 1974, no. 502, n.p. (illustrated)
    Werner Spies, Sigrid and Günter Metken, eds., Max Ernst Œuvre-Katalog. Max Ernst Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2676, p. 195 (illustrated)

MAXIMILIANA: MAX ERNST FROM THE COLLECTION OF PETER SCHAMONI

37

Di oscuri - les dieux obscurs

titled 'di oscuri - les dieux obscurs' upper edge; signed and dedicated 'à Hans Richter affect. Max Ernst' lower edge
paper collage on card mounted on handwritten paper manuscript of Paramyths
card element 18.9 x 12.2 cm (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
mount 18.9 x 24.4 cm (7 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.)

Executed in 1948.

Estimate
£1,500 - 2,500 ‡♠

Sold for £17,640

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

Online Auction 1 - 8 December 2021