Lot no. 222
* Max Ernst
1891-1976 (German)
Configuration, 1974
oil on panel affixed to the artist's mount (mount size: 41x33 cm)
33 x 24 cm (13 x 9 in.)
signed and dated lower right
Provenance: Dorothea Tanning, New York (by descent from the artist).
Gift from the above to a private American collector, 1993.
Exhibited: Max Ernst, Configurations, Huiles, Collages, Frottages, Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, 1975 (label on the reverse). Hommage au fondateur de XXe si?cle, San Lazzaro et ses amis, Mus?e d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, November (label on the reverse).
1975-January 1976. Max Ernst, Works from the Dorothea Tanning Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, February-June 1985, n.6
Other
Notes: This work will be included in the forthcoming volume of the complete work of Max Ernst currently being prepared by Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken and J?rgen Pech.
Pictures credits: Contact organization
Drawings, watercolours and pastels
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