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 10 of 15-part series on the works of André Masson:
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| 1967 The Sleepwalkers felt-tip ink 25 x 32 cm |
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| 1968 Exhibition Poster, Gallery Louis Leiris colour lithograph poster 66 x 48.2 cm |
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| 1968 "The Dance" Exhibition poster Galerie Lucie Weill colour lithograph on paper 76.2 x 52 cm |
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| 1968 Engulfment oil on canvas 130 x 162 cm |
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| 1968 Day of Intellectuals for Vietnam, May 1968 2-colour lithograph on paper 38.5 x 59 cm |
1968 Hommage à Roger Lacourière
An illustrated book with twelve etchings (two with aquatint,
two with drypoint, one with aquatint and drypoint) and one drypoint.
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| 1968 Hommage à Roger Lacourière Plate (folio 32) 23.5 x 29 cm (page) |
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| Untitled, from Body and Heart etching on Arches paper 38.1 x 27.9 cm |
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| "Femme" from Body and Heart etching on Arches paper 38.1 x 27.9 cm |
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| 1968 Untitled crayon and felt marker on paper 37 x 29 cm |
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| 1968 In the haunted half-cove etching and aquatint 45.5 x 56 cm |
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| c1968 Three Characters at Twilight etching and aquatint on BFK Rives paper 42.5 x 32.3 cm |
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| 1968-69 Four Women gouache on cardboard 64.7 x 50 cm |
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| 1968-69 Classical Scene 1 (at the crystal globe) oil on canvas 64.8 x 57.5 cm |
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| 1969 Viva Surrealism colour lithograph on paper 24.1 x 30.4 cm |
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| 1969 Untitled colour lithograph on wove paper: from the publication XXe Siecle, number 32, 31.1 x 24.1 cm |
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| 1969 The Stolen Heart colour lithograph on BFK Rives-Velin paper 53 x 42 cm |
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| 1969 The Irish Refuge oil, tempera and mixed media on canvas 89 x 116 cm |
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| 1969 The Daisy coloured pencils and felt-tip pen on paper 61 x 46 cm |
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| 1969 Abstract Composition colour lithograph on paper 31.1 x 23.4 cm |
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| c1969 The Couple colour lithograph on Arches paper 65 x 49.5 cm |
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| c1969 Character pastel and felt-tip pen on paper 48 x 34.5 cm |
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| 1970 Surrealist Woman colour lithograph on wove paper 25 x 19 cm |
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| 1970 Place of Sacrifice oil on canvas 97 x 130 cm |
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| 1970 One on top of the other pencil, wax, crayon and charcoal on paper 45.8 x 35.7 cm |
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| 1970 Dances of Spring lithograph on paper 76 x 53 cm |
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| 1970 Untitled colour lithograph on wove paper 50.5 x 65 cm |
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| 1970 The Musician (Lute companion of my calamity) pastel and gouache on paper 49 x 32 cm |
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| c1970 Untitled Composition colour lithograph on paper 67.3 x 52.7 cm |
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| c1970 Untitled colour lithograph on paper 75 x 52.5 cm |
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| c1970 Untitled colour aquatint on paper 41.5 x 50 cm |
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| c1970 Lady in the Sunflower colour lithograph on paper 59 x 44.4 cm |
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| 1970-73 The Guardians of Silence I: with Eroica and Guirlande for Ophelia aquatint on wove paper 50.4 x 58.5 cm |
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| 1971 Ixion pastel on paper laid on canvas 92 x 72 cm |
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| 1971 Homage to Durer: Adam and Eve etching and aquatint on paper 51 x 65 cm |
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| 1504 Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer engraving 25.1 x 20 cm |
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| 1971 Erotic Scene lithograph 48.5 x 65.5 cm published by Editions TCHOU Paris |
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| 1971 Dance in the Pomegranate etching with colour aquatint on cream-coloured vellum 29.5 x 24.5 cm |
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| 1971 Composition colour lithograph on paper 74.9 x 55.3 cm |
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| 1971 Unknown God pen and ink on paper 31 x 25.2 cm |
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| 1971 The Departure colour lithograph on Arches Vellum 28.5 x 22.5 cm |
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| 1971 The Bird Strangler pastel on blue paper 92 x 73 cm |
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| 1971 Nymph and Satyr colour lithograph on vellum paper 69.5 x 49.5 cm |
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| 1971 Mythology colour lithograph catalogue containing two engravings 32 x 24 cm |
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| 1972 20th Century no.38 lithograph 31.1 x 24.1 cm |
