Lot 223 
223
Max Ernst
Oiseaux en Péril, 1975.
Color Etching and aquatint and collage
Estimate:
€ 14,000 / $ 15,820 Sold:
€ 13,750 / $ 15,537 (incl. surcharge)
Oiseaux en Péril. 1975.
Color Etching and aquatint and collage.
Each signed and numbered. Verso typographically titled and each inscribed with the respective poem. Series of eight sheets from an edition of 100 copies. On Arches wove paper (with atermark, folded as double sheet). 30.6 x 25.4 cm (12 x 10 in). Sheet: 54,5 x 42 cm (21,4 x 16,5 in).
The complete series of eight illustrations for Dorothea Tanning's book of poems "Oiseaux en Péril", published by Georges Visat, Paris.
Contains: Mon fiancé est une idée saugrenue. Tous les couleurs du soir lilas. Au printemps il se pare d'une notion nuptiale importée d'Ègypte. Si le chant et la parade suffisent pas. Devant mon aile droite couve le morne militaire. Je suis un être oisif. La carte du monde tourne en dérision. Nous sommes la somme de nos envergures. [AW].
• The bird is a recurring key motif in the works of the great surrealist
• Reduced and expressive pictorial language
• He made the imaginative depictions for a book of poems by his wife Dorothea Tanning shortly before his death.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Luxemburg.
Color Etching and aquatint and collage.
Each signed and numbered. Verso typographically titled and each inscribed with the respective poem. Series of eight sheets from an edition of 100 copies. On Arches wove paper (with atermark, folded as double sheet). 30.6 x 25.4 cm (12 x 10 in). Sheet: 54,5 x 42 cm (21,4 x 16,5 in).
The complete series of eight illustrations for Dorothea Tanning's book of poems "Oiseaux en Péril", published by Georges Visat, Paris.
Contains: Mon fiancé est une idée saugrenue. Tous les couleurs du soir lilas. Au printemps il se pare d'une notion nuptiale importée d'Ègypte. Si le chant et la parade suffisent pas. Devant mon aile droite couve le morne militaire. Je suis un être oisif. La carte du monde tourne en dérision. Nous sommes la somme de nos envergures. [AW].
• The bird is a recurring key motif in the works of the great surrealist
• Reduced and expressive pictorial language
• He made the imaginative depictions for a book of poems by his wife Dorothea Tanning shortly before his death.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Luxemburg.
223
Max Ernst
Oiseaux en Péril, 1975.
Color Etching and aquatint and collage
Estimate:
€ 14,000 / $ 15,820 Sold:
€ 13,750 / $ 15,537 (incl. surcharge)
Headquarters
Joseph-Wild-Str. 18
81829 Munich
Phone: +49 89 55 244-0
Fax: +49 89 55 244-177
info@kettererkunst.de
Louisa von Saucken / Christoph Calaminus
Holstenwall 5
20355 Hamburg
Phone: +49 40 37 49 61-0
Fax: +49 40 37 49 61-66
infohamburg@kettererkunst.de
Dr. Simone Wiechers / Nane Schlage
Fasanenstr. 70
10719 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 88 67 53-63
Fax: +49 30 88 67 56-43
infoberlin@kettererkunst.de
Cordula Lichtenberg
Gertrudenstraße 24-28
50667 Cologne
Phone: +49 221 510 908-15
infokoeln@kettererkunst.de
Hessen
Rhineland-Palatinate
Miriam Heß
Phone: +49 62 21 58 80-038
Fax: +49 62 21 58 80-595
infoheidelberg@kettererkunst.de
We will inform you in time.