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ANDRÉ MASSON (1896-1987)
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signed 'André Masson' (upper right)
oil on canvas
15 x 24 in. (38 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1923
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signed 'André Masson' (upper right)
oil on canvas
15 x 24 in. (38 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1923
Provenance
Galerie Simon [Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler], Paris, by 1924.
Acquired from the above in the late 1950s-1960s, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Acquired from the above in the late 1950s-1960s, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
W. Rubin, André Masson, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1976, p. 97 (illustrated p. 96).
F.F.L. Beatty, André Masson and the Imagery of Surrealism, dis., Columbia University, 1981, p. 506 (illustrated pl. 118).
G. & M. Masson & C. Lœwer, André Masson and the Imagery of Surrealism, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, 1919-1941, vol. I, 1919 - 1929, Vaumarcus, 2010, no. 1923*34, p. 146 (illustrated).
F.F.L. Beatty, André Masson and the Imagery of Surrealism, dis., Columbia University, 1981, p. 506 (illustrated pl. 118).
G. & M. Masson & C. Lœwer, André Masson and the Imagery of Surrealism, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, 1919-1941, vol. I, 1919 - 1929, Vaumarcus, 2010, no. 1923*34, p. 146 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Simon, André Masson, February - March 1924, no. 22.
Basel, Kunsthalle, André Masson, Alberto Giacometti, May - June 1950, no. 6, p. 8.
Basel, Kunsthalle, André Masson, Alberto Giacometti, May - June 1950, no. 6, p. 8.
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