MAX ERNST, (1891-1976)
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pencil and frottage on VVV headed paper
26.7 x 18.3cm (10 1/2 x 7 3/16in).
Executed in 1942
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Dr. Jürgen Pech.
Provenance
Private collection, North Carolina (acquired in Paris circa 2001).
The present work's VVV headed paper places it at the heart of the USA's avant-garde movement during the Second World War, a time of great displacement for many of Europe's artists. The magazine was devoted to the dissemination of Surrealist theory in America from 1942 – 1943 and offered Americans, particularly the change hungry New York youth with a keen eye for international art, a surreal perspective and outtake on American culture.
Published by David Hare, a young American sculptor, VVV was produced under the guidance of three pivotal figures in Surrealist and conceptual art at the time, André Breton, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst. The publication featured illustrations by the most recognizable Surrealist artists of the day, such as Giorgio de Chirico and Yves Tanguy, along with Ernst and Breton themselves; its presentation was as experimental as it was radical for the time.
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Untitled
Untitled
pencil and frottage on VVV headed paper
26.7 x 18.3cm (10 1/2 x 7 3/16in).
Executed in 1942
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Dr. Jürgen Pech.
Provenance
Private collection, North Carolina (acquired in Paris circa 2001).
The present work's VVV headed paper places it at the heart of the USA's avant-garde movement during the Second World War, a time of great displacement for many of Europe's artists. The magazine was devoted to the dissemination of Surrealist theory in America from 1942 – 1943 and offered Americans, particularly the change hungry New York youth with a keen eye for international art, a surreal perspective and outtake on American culture.
Published by David Hare, a young American sculptor, VVV was produced under the guidance of three pivotal figures in Surrealist and conceptual art at the time, André Breton, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst. The publication featured illustrations by the most recognizable Surrealist artists of the day, such as Giorgio de Chirico and Yves Tanguy, along with Ernst and Breton themselves; its presentation was as experimental as it was radical for the time.
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