Granite Pebble
Artist: Max Ernst (1891 - 1976)
Location: 2 Willow Road
Date: 1934
Materials: painted stone
Dimensions: 18 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £10,000 (Total: £30,000)
Vendor: Goldfinger family
Review number: 4061 (1994)
Provenance:
Acquired from Ernest by Erno Goldfinger; by descent.
Description:
Ernst, like other members of the Surrealist movement, was interested in the serendipity of 'objets trouvés'. While spending the summer at Maloja, near Saint-Moritz, with his friend Giacometti, they discovered several granite stones in the water, already smooth and rounded. Ernst transformed the pebble with the decorative use of paint.
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