PARIS.- The 73-lot sale of Impressionist & Modern Art to be held at Sotheby’s Paris on Thursday 8th December (6pm) will be highly selective, paying tribute to some of the 20th century’s most outstanding artists – including Ernst, Matta, Lam, Metzinger and Miró – and featuring numerous works which have a remarkable provenance or which are fresh to the market. After the recent Impressionist & Modern Art sales in New York, where his works were targeted by bidders from around the globe, Max Ernst will again be a focus of attention in Paris, thanks to an exceptional ensemble of market-fresh works. The highlight will be La Carmagnole (1927), consigned from the collection of a major connoisseur, and the most important Ernst painting of the 1920’s to appear at auction for many years. The painting’s violence, with its fearsome apparitions produced by frottage, harks back to the Middle Age and the Danse Macabre, while simultaneously anticipating the cataclysmic events to come in 1930s Europe (est. €1,500,000–1,800,000 / $2,070,000-2,480,000).