Le Philosophe

Details

André Masson (1896-1987)
Le Philosophe
signed and dated 'Andre Masson 1940' (lower right)
pen and India ink on paper
20 1/8 x 14 ¾ in. (51 x 37.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1940

Provenance

Kleeman Galleries, New York.
Anon. sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 17 May 1950, lot 113.
Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, by 1975.

Exhibited

New York, Willard Gallery, André Masson: Examples of His Work from 1922 to 1945, February-March 1947, no. 36.
Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Surrealität–Bildrealität 1924-1974, December 1974-February 1975, p. 104, no. 196.
New York, Lerner-Heller Gallery and Blue Moon Gallery, André Masson: Second Surrealist Period, 1937-1943, April-May 1975, p. 27, no. 14 (illustrated in color).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, André Masson, June 1976-May 1977, p. 3, no. 81.
New York, The Jewish Museum and Washington D.C., United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Assignment Rescue: The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee, January 1995-March 1998, no. 53.

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Lot Essay

The Comité André Masson has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

This work is likely a portrait of the noted philosopher, Paul-Louis Landsberg, a few years before his untimely death in April 1944. Landsberg studied under Heidegger and became a professor of philosophy at the University of Bonn. His wife, Madeleine, also contributed texts to André Masson, published in 1940 by Robert Desnos and Armand Salacrou.

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