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 5 of 15-part series on the works of André Masson:
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| c1948 The Frogs lithograph 30.4 x 47.7 cm (composition) Published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris |
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| c1948 Portrait of Tal Coat lithograph 43.8 x 31.5 cm (composition) |
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| 1948 The Red Lands and the Montagne Sainte Victoire oil on canvas 96.6 x 76.5 cm Tate Gallery, London |
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| 1948 The Moon's Step - The Sun's Gallop charcoal on cardboard 43 x 31 cm |
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| 1948 The Clump of Grass oil on canvas 69 x 37.1 cm |
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| 1948 Rock pastel on grey paper 62.5 x 48 cm |
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| 1949 The Sparrowhawk above the Torrent mixed media on paper 35.5 x 51.5 cm |
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| 1949 Rain on the Verdon oil on canvas 37.7 x 46.2 cm |
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| 1949 Rain oil on canvas 46.2 x 33 cm |
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| 1949 Montagne Ste. Victoire lithograph 44.5 x 39.7 cm (composition) |
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| 1949 Gorge oil on canvas 65 x 46 cm |
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| 1949 Glacier through the clouds oil on canvas 65.3 x 54 cm |
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| 1949 Bathers oil on canvas 50 x 65 cm |
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| 1949 Bathers oil on canvas 41 x 56 cm (framed) |
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| 1949 The Conquerors etching and aquatint (size not given) |
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| 1949 The Conquerors etching and aquatint (size not given) |
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| 1949 The Conquerors etching and aquatint (size not given) |
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| 1950 Ripe Pomegranates lithograph 53.8 x 38 cm (sheet) |
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| 1950 Ripe Pomegranates lithograph 45.2 x 31.5 cm (sheet) |
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| 1950 Red Pomegranates lithograph 44.8 x 31.6 cm (sheet) |
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| 1950 Reader with Red Book lithograph 53.2 x 37.9 cm |
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| 1950 La Sainte-Victoire pastel on paper 32 x 41 cm |
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| 1950 Bull lithograph on paper 28.5 x 38.1 cm |
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| 1950 Blue Bather lithograph 53.2 x 38.2 cm (sheet) |
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| 1950 Two Roosters pastels on card laid on canvas 31 x 23 cm |
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| 1950 The Flight of the Partridge oil on canvas 65.5 x 46.5 cm |
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| 1950 Spring Rain oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm |
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| 1951 The Cock media not given 34.2 x 28.4 cm (composition) |
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| 1951 Red Pomegranates lithograph with Chinese porcelain 45 x 31.7 cm |
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| 1951 Pomegranates in the Wind lithograph 38.3 x 50.5 cm (sheet) |
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| 1951 Elk in the Forest engraving on Arches Vellum c31 x 24 cm |
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| 1951 Bathers oil on canvas 23 x 34 cm |
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| 1951 Nocturne lithograph on chine collé 38.2 x 32.2 cm (composition) |
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| 1951 Tragic Greece engraving on Arches Vellum 31 x 24 cm |
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| 1951 The River in Winter oil on canvas 128.5 x 65.8 cm National Galleries of Scotland |
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| 1951 The Horse Tryout lithograph 26.5 x 29.5 cm (composition) |
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| 1951 The death of the Pheasant oil on canvas 38 x 61 cm |
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| 1952 Voyage to Venice colour lithograph approx 52 x 81 cm |
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| 1952 Valley in the Rut oil on canvas 50 x 65 cm |
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| 1952 The Torrent colour lithograph on paper 53 x 68 cm (published in Verve) |
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| 1952 Landscape near Aix-en-Provence pastels on paper (size not given) |
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| 1952 Depressed Woodcock lithograph 50 x 32.9 cm (sheet) |
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| 1953 The Torrent lithograph 35.5 x 53.3 cm |
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| 1953 Riez oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm (support) Tate Gallery, London |
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| 1953 Pompeii IV lithograph on paper 31.7 x 45 cm |
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| 1953 Pine Trees and Waterfall oil on canvas c92 x 73 cm |
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| 1953 Horse frightened by Blood bronze 60.3 x 81.7 cm |
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