"Untitled" - André Masson
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André Masson (French, 1897-1987)
Lithograph, signed in pencil, numbered 44 of 130.
Masson was a noted French Surrealist painter and graphic artist. He also experimented with cubism and automatic drawing in his early years. Under the German occupation of France during WWII his work was condemned by the Nazis as degenerate. He escaped Nazi occupied Europe and relocated to the united States where he became an important influence on the American Abstract Expressionist movement and especially Jackson Pollock. Art for Masson was "a way of knowing' simultaneous with a way of action; admitting the violent, the erotic, the chaotic, spurning any rationally formulated order".
His work has appeared in major retrospectives at MoMA and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among other prestigious venues.
Provenance : acquired at auction by Bohaus Art;
30" x 37 1/2" / 76cm x 95cm