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Provenance: Private collection, by whom acquired directly from the artist in the early 1930s.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1973, lot 90.
Galerie Agora, Paris.
Private collection, Paris, by 1979.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 November 1988, lot 80.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
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Exhibited: Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Surrealität - Bild Realität, December 1974 - February 1975; this exhibition later travelled to Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, February - April 1975. Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Max Ernst, April - May 1977, no. 77 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, June - July 1977.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Max Ernst. Retrospektive, February - April 1979, no. 203 (illustrated p. 291); this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Nationalgalerie, May - July 1979.
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Literature: L'Oeil, no. 223, February 1974, p. 35 (illustrated).
W. Spies, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 1698, p. 69 (illustrated).
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Notes: Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite").If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Le toréador
signed and dated 'max ernst 1930' (lower right)
oil on canvas
32 x 23¾ in. (81.3 x 60.3 cm.)
Painted in 1930
