"Masque" - Aquatinte originale signée de Max Ernst

«Masque» - Original aquatint signed by Max Ernst
1950, 31.5 x 50 cm, single sheet
Original aquatint by Max Ernst signed in pencil on bottom right by the artist. Autograph pencil note to bottom left: "BAT (avec fond)".
A handsome proof on vergé d'Arches paper of this original aquatint engraved by Max Ernst in 1950 and only printed 20 years later in the workshop of Georges Visat in 100 numbered copies and signed [Spies/Leppien, 38]. This copy is the contract proof of the engraving.
Two small pinholes to top left and bottom right of subject, as on all the plates in the printing.