Couple amoureux

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ANDRÉ MASSON (1896-1987)
Couple amoureux
signed 'andré masson' (lower left)
gouache, pastel, colored wax crayons and brush and black ink on paper laid down on card
29 7/8 x 21 7/8 in. (76 x 55.5 cm.)

Provenance

Marisa del Re Gallery, Inc., New York (by 1981).
Studio Due Ci Arte Moderna, Rome (1983).
Acquired from the above by the late owner.

Exhibited

Parma, Museo della Pilotta, 1981, no. 63.
New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, André Masson, November 1981 (illustrated in color, pl. 7).
Rome, Studio Due Ci Arte Moderna, André Masson, November-December 1983, no. 38 (illustrated in color; dated 1943).
Newport Harbor Art Museum, The Interpretative Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper 1938-1948, July 1986-April 1987, no. 53.

Conditions of sale

Lot Essay

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