Max Ernst - Chéri Bibi, 1973

auction 69, Lot 1015

WORKS ON PAPER AND PAINTINGS 15-20 CENTURY AT 2 PM

MODERN, POST WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART AT 5 PM

on 3 December 2020

Max Ernst

Chéri Bibi, 1973

estimate:
€ 8.000 to € 10.000

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result:
€ 16.510 (incl. 27 % buyer's premium)

description:

Max Ernst

1891 Brühl near Cologne - 1976 Paris

 

Chéri Bibi, 1973

 

 

Bronze, with dark brown patina. Signed "Max Ernst" on the plinth, numbered and with the hammered foundry mark "Valsuani cire perdu" verso. Height: 34 cm.

 

Literature: Werner Spies. Max Ernst. Skulpturen, Häuser, Landschaften. Exhibition catalogue Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf, Cologne 1998, p. 193 with illustration; Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst - Plastische Werke, Cologne 2005