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Lot 97 R

Max Ernst - Cheri Bibi

Auction 932 - overview Cologne
06.12.2008, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 10.000 € - 14.000 €
Result: 15.600 € (incl. premium)

Bronze sculpture. Height 33.8 cm. Signed max ernst on the back of the cast with plinth, to the right of this the scratched edition numbering "93/175" and the rhomboid foundry mark "CIRE VALSUANI PERDU" (no longer legible) .Exemplar 93/175. - With brown and green varying patina.

After a plaster model from 1964, which Max Ernst had cast in 1975 at the Foundry Valsuani in 3 editions, each with a different patination and each with 175 casts. Although numbered to 175, the editions were not fully carried out.

Provenance

Private collection, Japan

Literature

Werner Spies, Max Ernst, Skulpturen, Häuser, Landschaften, exhib. cat. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1998, p. 183 with ill.