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Lot 376 D

Max Ernst - Chéri Bibi

Auction 1033 - overview Cologne
30.05.2014, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 10.000 € - 12.000 €
Result: 14.640 € (incl. premium)

Max Ernst

Chéri Bibi
1973

Bronze Height 33.3 cm Signed 'max ernst' on the back of the cast-with plinth, numbered and with the foundry mark "VALSUANI". Exemplar 73/175. The bronze was made in 1973 following the plaster created in 1964 in a numbered edition of 175 copies each, 15 épreuves d'artiste and some épreuves d'essai in green, brown and black patina. - Greenish-brown patina. - Few tiny superficial dents on the edges, few minor irregularities in the patina.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland

Literature

Werner Spies, Max Ernst. Skulpturen, Häuser, Landschaften, exhib. cat. Kunstsammlungen Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf, Cologne 1998, p. 183 with illus.; Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst - Plastische Werke, Cologne 2005, p. 206, with colour illus. p. 207