André Masson (1896-1987) french painter, sculptor, illustrator, designer and writer, was born at Balagny (Oise). He spent most of his youth in Brussels, where he worked as a pattern-drawer in an embroidery studio and studied part-time at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Then moved to Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts 1912-14. He served in the French Army 1914-19, and was gravely wounded. He lived in the South of France (1919-22), then returned to Paris where he met Gris, Derain, and later Miró and Breton. His first one-man exhibition was at the Galerie Simon, Paris in 1923. Paintings of forests, card players and still lifes, followed by experiments with automatic drawing. From 1924-9 he participated in the Surrealist movement. He made further works exploring chance effects, including sand paintings, as well as paintings of metamorphoses of animal and human forms, themes of germination, combats and massacres, with emphasis on violence and eroticism. He lived in Spain 1934-36 where he made paintings of bullfights, Spanish myths, etc. He took refuge in the USA between 1941-45, where he lived at New Preston, Connecticut, and made works inspired by the elemental forces of nature. He returned to France in 1945 and settled in Aix-en-Provence in 1947. Here he painted landscape themes such as mountains and waterfalls for several years, followed by some almost completely abstract pieces. His works also include sets and costumes for the theatre, book illustrations and a number of small sculptures.
This is part 13 of 15-part series on the works of André Masson:
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| Chimera Head charcoal and ink on paper 28 x 21 cm |
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| Charming Butterflies colour etching and aquatint on paper 30.4 x 15.2 cm (print area) |
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| Charles Baudelaire lithograph on paper 21 x 13.8 cm |
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| Carafe and Fish oil on canvas 40.4 x 33.3 cm |
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| Calligraphy lithograph on paper 50 x 60 cm |
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| Composition ink and collage on paper 43 x 61 cm |
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| Composition with female nude engraving in black on paper 41.7 x 32.7 cm |
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| Composition on Black Bottom colour lithograph on paper 61.5 x .48.8 cm |
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| Composition in Red colour lithograph on paper 73.6 x 54.6 cm |
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| Composition in Blue colour etching and aquatint on Arches paper 50 x 33 cm |
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| Composition coloured etching 13.5 x 11.4 cm |
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| Composition colour lithograph on paper 76 x 55 cm |
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| Composition colour lithograph on handmade paper 50 x 60 cm |
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| Couple with Flowers pressed flowers and ferns on handmade paper 36 x 29.5 cm |
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| Couple colour lithograph on paper 45.7 x 35.5 cm |
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| Drawing for cover of Finnegan’s Wake ink on paper 26 x 40 cm Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin |
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| Doves and Flowers colour lithograph on paper 65 x 50.5 cm |
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| Doves and Faces colour lithograph on paper 65 x 50.5 cm |
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| Dance of the Sunflowers colour lithograph 67 x 50 cm |
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| Exultation (Red) colour lithograph on Arches paper 89 x 61 cm |
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| Erotic Earth lithograph on paper 76 x 54 cm |
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| Epithalamium oil, tempera and sand on canvas 60 x 67.9 cm |
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| Female Silhouettes colour lithograph 53 x 36 cm |
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| Face of the Double Shadow oil on canvas 22 x 27.1 cm |
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| Face etching on vellum 54.6 x 42.1 cm (sheet) |
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| Face - Fountain lithograph on paper 31 x 23.5 cm |
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| Fish Fight oil pastel on a heliogravure background 35.5 x 40.5 cm |
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| Fire Eater crayon on paper 32.7 x 39.3 cm |
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| Figure colour lithograph on paper 63 x 48 cm |
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| Four Women colour lithograph on wove 65 x 50 cm |
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| For a Poem by Paul Eluard lithograph on paper 22.2 x 21.5 cm |
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| Flowering Tree pastel on paper 62 x 48 cm |
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| Green Dragon etching and aquatint on paper 41.2 x 33 cm |
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| Green and pink Nude oil on canvas 41 x 33 cm |
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| Head in Profile ink on paper 56 x 48 cm |
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| Illustration for "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky watercolour and ink on paper 32.5 x 25 cm |
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| Jubilation tempera on paper 50.5 x 65 cm |
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| Kites oil, tempera and sand on canvas 97 x 108 cm |
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| Kidnapping Dream oil on canvas 64.9 x 80.8 cm |
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| Les Hains-Teny carborundum etching 42 x 32 cm |
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| Legend colour lithograph on paper 50 c 65.5 cm |
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| Morning Twilight colour lithograph on paper 74.9 x 55.8 cm |
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| Metamorphosis oil and pastel on canvas 46.2 x 55 cm |
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| Matriarchal Landscape oil on canvas 51.8 x 61 cm |
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| Martiniquaise oil on canvas 41 x 33.5 cm |
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| Naked Woman pastel, felt pen and pencil on paper laid down on canvas 22 x 16.3 cm |
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