André Masson
France (1896—1987)
After studying art in Brussels and Paris, Masson started painting but was called to the front and was severely wounded. After WWI he was noted by André Breton, who introduced him to Surrealism. Masson absorbed the ‘automatic writing’ approach and converted it into drawings and paintings, making it one of his most distinctive traits. From 1934 he moved to Spain but with the political climate at the onset of WWII, he fled and settled in US. His abstract style is said to have influenced Pollock and have contributed to set the foundations for Abstract Expressionism.
Terre sur terre
Illustrated book / 15.5 x 22.1 cm / Geneva / Paris, 1946 / © Éditions des Trois Collines
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Georges Hugnet / André Masson / Raoul Ubac / Jean Arp / André Breton / Salvador Dalí / Marcel Duchamp / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Alberto Giacometti / Wassily Kandinsky / Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) / René Magritte / Joan Miró / Pablo Picasso / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Tristan Tzara / Marc Chagall / Henri Matisse
Minotaure
Revue artistique et littéraire / Magazine / 23.6 x 31.5 cm / Paris, 1933-1939
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Glossaire j'y serre mes gloses
By Michel Leiris / Illustrated book / 16 original lithographs / 10.7 x 17.7 cm / Paris, 1939 / © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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The moon
Original lithograph / 26 x 35.5 cm / 1938 / © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris