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Max Ernst

Brühl 1891 – 1976 Paris

”(Origine de la famille)”. 1942

Pencil and tempera on brown laid paper. 48 × 37 cm (18 ⅞ × 14 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Max Ernst. ”(Origine de la famille)”. 1942.

Estimate:

EUR 25,000

 

- 35,000

USD 28,100

 

- 39,300

Sold for:

31,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2025

Modern Art, Friday, 06.06.2025

Information

Pencil and tempera on brown laid paper. 48 × 37 cm (18 ⅞ × 14 ⅝ in.). Signed lower right: max ernst. Catalogue raisonné: Spies/Metken 2407. Accompanied by a confirmation by Werner Spies (in copy). Framed

Private Collection, Austria (acquired in 1987 at Grisebach, Berlin)

Auction 538: Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts. Cologne, Kunsthaus Lempertz, 16./17.5.1974, cat. no. 191, ill. pl. 45 (dated 1946) / London, Sotheby & Co, 4.12.1974 / auction 249: Moderne Kunst. Hamburg Hauswedell & Nolte, 9./10.6.1983, cat. no. 386, ill. pl. 147 (dated 1941) / auction 2: Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, 10.6.1987, cat. no. 88, ill. pl. 39

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