Lot 123001404 
123001404
Max Ernst
Réveille du jour (L'eclipse), 1962.
Mixed media. Oil and gouache on paper
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 43,200 - 64,800
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Réveille du jour (L'eclipse). 1962.
Mixed media. Oil and gouache on paper.
Signed in upper right. On paper, laid on fiberboard. 21 x 16.5 cm (8.2 x 6.4 in), the full sheet.
• Impressive testimony to Ernst's continued enthusiasm for technical experimentation.
• The transition from night to day is the time of dreams.
• Max Ernst creates a magical and unreal aura with his refined technique.
• Paintings by the artist are in numerous important international museums like the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Center Pompidou, Paris, and the Tate Collection, London.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Lucie Weill, Paris.
Timothy Baum, New York.
Private collection Europa.
Private collection Northern Germany.
Private collection Switzerland (acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: Two Surrealist Wise Men as Seen at Christmastime. Max Ernst and Joan Miró, prints and drawings, Dec. 1968, Kovler Gallery, Chicago, no. 9.
LITERATURE: Werner Spiess/Sigrid and Günter Metken, Max Ernst Œuvre Catalog: Werke 1954-1963, Houston/Cologne 1998, no. 3617, p. 295 (fig.).
Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, October 23, 1974, lot 165.
Christie's East, New York, May 11, 1989, lot 172.
Mixed media. Oil and gouache on paper.
Signed in upper right. On paper, laid on fiberboard. 21 x 16.5 cm (8.2 x 6.4 in), the full sheet.
• Impressive testimony to Ernst's continued enthusiasm for technical experimentation.
• The transition from night to day is the time of dreams.
• Max Ernst creates a magical and unreal aura with his refined technique.
• Paintings by the artist are in numerous important international museums like the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Center Pompidou, Paris, and the Tate Collection, London.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Lucie Weill, Paris.
Timothy Baum, New York.
Private collection Europa.
Private collection Northern Germany.
Private collection Switzerland (acquired from the above).
EXHIBITION: Two Surrealist Wise Men as Seen at Christmastime. Max Ernst and Joan Miró, prints and drawings, Dec. 1968, Kovler Gallery, Chicago, no. 9.
LITERATURE: Werner Spiess/Sigrid and Günter Metken, Max Ernst Œuvre Catalog: Werke 1954-1963, Houston/Cologne 1998, no. 3617, p. 295 (fig.).
Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, October 23, 1974, lot 165.
Christie's East, New York, May 11, 1989, lot 172.
The search and development of new techniques is inherent in Max Ernst's oeuvre. He used over-painting, collage, frottage, grattage. In this sense, the Décalcomanie technique also helped him to alienate the mundane and to stage the inexplicable in a vexing manner. The dark brushstrokes roll off against a light background. Max Ernst imagines the atmosphere of the beginning of a day when the curtain of night is lifted. It is the time of dreams and expression of the subconscious. [EH]
123001404
Max Ernst
Réveille du jour (L'eclipse), 1962.
Mixed media. Oil and gouache on paper
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 43,200 - 64,800
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.