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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)

Max Ernst

Cheri Bibi
1964-1973

bronze sculpture Geplante 175 Exemplare

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.