Ohne Titel. 1953.
Oil and gouache.
Spies/Metken 3030. Lower right signed and dated. On paper. 58.5 x 45.5 cm (23 x 17.9 in), the full sheet.
[SM].
• Mysterious representation on different superimposed image levels with an fascinating structure.
• Instead of imitating the visible, there is a vision of the invisible.
• Family-owned for over 65 years.
• The artist's works can be found in numerous important international museums, among them the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Center Pompidou, Paris, and the Tate Collection, London.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Max Ernst, Galerie Springer, Berlin, February 22 - April 3, 1954, no. 22.
Max Ernst. Bilder von 1925-1957, Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne, October 18 - November 15, 1957, no. 9.
Deutsche Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Malerei und Plastik aus Privatbesitz, Suermondt-Museum, Aachen, May 3 - June 28, 1964, no. 25.