ERNST, MAX1891 Bruehl - 1976 Paris


Title: Clairière.
Date: 1958.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 61 x 50cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: max ernst 58. Additionally signed, dated and titled verso: CLAIRIÈRE max ernst 58.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Provenance:
- Galerie Edouard Loeb, Paris
- Parke-Bernet, New York, auction, 25th October 1963, lot 43
- Maxwell Davidson, New York (label)
- Private collection, New York
- Galerie Beyeler, Basel (label)
- Galerie Neher, Essen
- Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from previous owner in 1989)
- Independent foundation under the care of the German Foundation Centre, Essen

Exhibitions:
- Galerie Beyeler, Basel 1974 (label)
- Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, 1985/1986 (label)
- Runkel-Hue-Williams, London 1988/1989 (label)
- Galerie Neher, Essen 1989

Literature:
- Spies, Werner (ed.): Max Ernst - Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1954-1963, Houston/Cologne 1998, cat. no. 3356, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Max Ernst, Retrospektive, Galerie Beyeler, Basel 1974, cat. no. 38, ill.
- Quinn, Edward: Max Ernst, Texte: Max Ernst, Uwe M. Schneede, et al., Paris 1976, p. 310, no. 378, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Max Ernst, Landschaften, Galerie Beyeler, Basel 1985, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Max Ernst: Landschaften, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Basel 1985, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Max Ernst, Paintings, Sculptures & Works on Paper, Runkel-Hue-Williams LTD, London 1988/1989, pp. 42/43, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Moderne mit Tradition, Galerie Neher, Essen 1989, pp. 61/67, ill.

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