ANDRÉ MASSON (1896-1987)
07.03.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1548135
Lot 971 | ANDRÉ MASSON (1896-1987)
Estimate value
12000GBP £ 12 000 – 18 000
Le pays de Métamorphoses
signed and dated andré masson 1941 (lower left); inscribed Le Pays des Métamorphoses. (lower right)
pen and India ink on paper
50,5 x 66 cm. (19 7/8 x 26 in.)
Executed in 1941
Provenance
Private collection, New York; Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 29 November 1967, lot 512.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Verhext – Phantastische Graphik aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, November 1997 - March 1998 (no cat.).
Düsseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Surrealismus 1919-1944 - Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso, July - November 2002, p. 333 (ill.; with incorrect medium).
Berlin, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Kassandra - Visionen des Unheils 1914-1945, November 2008 - February 2009, no. VII / 3, p. 313 (ill.)
Further details
The Comité André Masson has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
| Artist: | André Masson (1896 - 1987) |
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| Applied technique: | Ball pen |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Surrealism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | André Masson (1896 - 1987) |
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| Applied technique: | Ball pen |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Surrealism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
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