André Masson (1896-1987)

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€ 80 000
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31.03.2022 15:00 UTC +01:00
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ID 736450
Lot 225 | André Masson (1896-1987)
André Masson (1896-1987)

Abattoir (le boucher)

signé et daté ‘andré masson. 31’ (en bas à gauche)

huile sur toile

73 x 60 cm.

Peint en 1931



signed and dated ‘andré masson. 31’ (lower left)

oil on canvas

28 3⁄4 x 23 5⁄8 in.

Painted in 1931







Provenance

Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris et New York (no. 3028).

Galleria Toninelli, Milan.

Edward Totah Gallery, Londres (avant 1988).

Vente, Sotheby's, Londres, 5 avril 1989, lot 152.

Collection particulière, Suisse (avant 1997).

Acquis par le propriétaire vers les années 2000.





Literature

L. J. Moahan, dr., A Knife Halfway Into Dreams, André Masson, Massacres and Surrealism of the 1930s, Thèse, Cambridge, 1997, no. 12 (illustré; dimensions erronnées).

G. Masson, M. Masson et C. Loewer, André Masson, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, 1930-1941, Paris, 2010, vol. II, p. 90, no. 1931*8 (illustré en couleurs).





Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Artcurial, André Masson, Mythes et chimères, mars-avril 1986, p. 46, no. 11 (illustré en couleurs, p. 12; titré 'Le Bûcheron').

Londres, Edward Totah Gallery et Milan, Galleria Seno, André Masson, Œuvres 1922-1978, mars-avril 1988, p. 58, no. 6 (illustré en couleurs).





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