Max Ernst (1891-1976), 2 holoëder sulfate silicate picastrate u. zwillinge nach meiner wahl mit stäbchen (Two Holohedra Sulfates, Silicates, Picastrates and twins after my choice with chopsticks)

Max Ernst (1891-1976)
2 holoëder sulfate silicate picastrate u. zwillinge nach meiner wahl mit stäbchen (Two Holohedra Sulfates, Silicates, Picastrates and twins after my choice with chopsticks)
signed 'max ernst' (lower right) and titled (on the artist's mount)
gouache, India ink, pencil and paper collage on paper laid down on the artist's mount
Image: 4 3/8 x 6½ in. (11 x 16.6 cm.);
Artist's mount: 5 5/8 x 8 3/8 in. (14.3 x 21.4 cm.)
Executed in 1920

Provenance

Loni Pretzell (the artist's sister), Celle.
Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne.
Dieter Keller, Stuttgart, by 1962.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 31 March 1965, lot 131.
Galleria Galatea, Turin (no. 1692), by 1966.
Private collection, Turin, by whom acquired from the above by 1967, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, London, 21 June 2011, lot 72 (£313,250).
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR