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MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Le roi jouant avec la reine
signed 'Max Ernst' (on the front)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 39 1/2 in. (100.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1944 and cast in 1953-1961
Provenance
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York (probably acquired from the artist).
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro, Chicago (acquired from the above); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 1992, lot 50.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
M. Ernst, Beyond Painting and Other Writings about the Artist and his Friends, New York, 1948, p. 78 (plaster illustrated, p. 79).
C. Giedion-Welcker, Contemporary Sculpture: An Evolution in Volume and Space, New York, 1955, p. 244 (another cast illustrated).
P. Waldberg, Max Ernst Paris, 1958, p. 409 (another cast illustrated).
F. Hazan, Dictionnaire de la sculpture moderne, Paris, 1960, p. 88 (another cast illustrated; titled Le roi jouant aux échecs avec sa reine).
J. Russell, Max Ernst Life and Work, New York, 1967, no. 147 (another cast illustrated).
W. Spies, S. and G. Metken, Max Ernst Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, p. 86, no. 2465,I (another cast illustrated).
W. Spies, Max Ernst Sculptures, maisons, paysages, exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1998 (plaster illustrated, p. 135; another cast illustrated).
Exhibited
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, 1985, p. 58, no. 56 (illustrated, fig. 46).
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