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Max Ernst (German, 1891–1976) · 1926
CHF 180,000 hammer
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “Oil on cardboard”
- Support
- Board
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- 50.5 x 40.5 cm
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 276: Live Auction - Part 1 (276)
- Date
- June 17, 2022
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 39
- Estimate
- CHF 175,000 (≈ $181,598) (≈ £148,074) (≈ €173,181)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (6)
- Galerie L'Effort Moderne, Paris (Léonce Rosenberg), with label and inventory number 9047 F on the reverse.
- Gallery Der Spiegel, Cologne, there purchased by
- Collection Hanns Hülsberg, Hagen in Westphalia
- Private collection Germany
- Exhibition
- Cologne 1957, Der Spiegel Gallery, Max Ernst, Bilder von 1925-1957, cat. no. 2
Literature (1)
- Catalogue raisonné: Werner Spies/Sigrid and Günter Metken, Max Ernst, Werke 1925-1929, Cologne 1976, no. 1016
As published by Kornfeld.
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