Paul Eluard, Paris (sa vente : Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 2 juillet 1924, lot 36)
Galerie Arditti, Paris
Galerie Beyeler, Bâle
Collection particulière, Genève
Acq🦄uis♏ du précédent en 1987 par le propriétaire actuel

Paris, Salon des Indépendants, 1923
Zurich, Kunsthaus ; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Dada, Exposition Commémorative du Cinquantenaire, 1966-67, no. 79
Hanovre, Kunstmuseum, Max Ernst, 1981, p. 37, no. 1, reproduit en couleur
Paris, Didier Imbert Fine Art, Tableaux du XIXe et XXe siècle, 1987, no. 11
New York, Museum of Modern Art ; Houston, The Menil Collection ; Chicago, The Art Institute, Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism, 1993, no. 140, reproduit en couleur

Florent Fels, "Die Indépendants", in Das Kunstblatt, 7 avril 1923, vol. IV, p. 122
Bulletin de L'Effort Moderne, mars 1925, no. 13, reproduit
André Breton, Le Surréalisme et la Peinture, nouvelle édition revue et corrigée 1928-1965, Paris, 1965, p. 28, reproduit
Sarane Alexandrian, Max Ernst, Paris, 1971, p. 38, reproduit
José Vovelle, Le Surréalisme en Belgique, Bruxelles, 1972, p. 92
Werner Spies, Max Ernst-Collagen, Inventar und Widerspruch, Cologne, 1974, pp. 46 & 126, discuté
Werner Spies, Max Ernst œuvre-Katalog: Werke 1906-1925, Cologne, 1975, vol. I, p. 310, no. 600, reproduit
Ludger Derenthal & Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst, Paris, 1992, p. 71, no.♛ 123, reproduit 🍰en couleur

The canvas is not lined. There is some shrinkage in the black pigments. Apart from an intermittent line of retouching along the edges, this work is in good condition.
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signed 'Max Ernst' and dated '1922' (lower right) ; signed 'Max Ernst' and titled 'L'Intérieur de la Vue No 4' (on the reverse), oil on canvas. Painted in 1922.

 

On trouve une intensité curieuse dans ce tableau. Les vases sont en alerte, animés de formes, remplis de vie et silencieux, mais avec une ambiguïté formelle et spatiale.

There is an intensity about this painting. The vases are alert, animated forms, pregnant with life and quietly stated but absolute ambiguities of form, space and light.

William Camfield, Max Ernst, Dada and the dawn of the Surrealism, Munich, 1993, p. 132