Max Ernst *

(Brühl 1901–1976 Paris)
Untitled, 1958, signed, oil on board, 24 x 33 cm, framed
This work is accompanied by a photo certificate signed by the artist.

Provenance:
Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris (acquired from the artist, certificate of provenance available)
Galleria de’Foscherari, Bologna (label and stamp on the reverse)
European Private Collection

Literature:
W. Spies (ed.), Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1954-1963, Menil Foundation, Houston, Texas and DuMont, Cologne 1998, p. 163, no. 3363 (incorrectly listed as oil on canvas)

Every normal human being (and not merely the ‘artist’) has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures…of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.

Max Ernst