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French, 1896-1987

Born in 1896 in Balagny-sur- Thérain, a small village in France, André Masson spent most of his youth in Brussels, Belgium working as a pattern maker at an embroidery atelier. Masson began his schooling in 1907 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. In 1912, he relocated to Paris, where he attended the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1914, the artist was called to military duty for the First World War, where he was severely wounded and sent back to Paris. Much of Masson’s work is influenced by this trauma; his drawings and paintings executed during the 1920s represent battle scenes, blood, death, birds and fish. The strange realities of trench warfare and the immediate contiguity of life and death are drawn upon, and his imagery suggests a confrontation of life at an abnormal level of experience. His signature style deals with violence, evident in terrifying, fragmented figures, which reflect the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and WWII, as well as his troubled psyche in the aftermath of his service in WWI.

After WWI, Masson moved to the South of France, where he met Juan Gris, André Derain, Joan Miró and André Breton. Breton championed the Surrealist Manifesto and Masson joined in the group exhibition of the first Surrealists. An iconoclast, whose abrupt stylistic transitions defy classification, Masson also explored automatism (automatic drawing), a process that sought to express the creative force of the unconscious. These automatic drawings had no preconceived subject or composition. Like a medium channeling a spirit, Masson let his pen travel rapidly across the paper without conscious control. He soon found hints of images, fragmented bodies and objects, emerging from the abstract, lacelike web of pen marks. At times, Masson elaborated on these with conscious changes or additions, but he left the traces of the rapidly drawn ink mostly intact. Masson’s oeuvre explores several techniques of painting, drawing and sculpture and displays rich, colorful abstraction as well as monochrome imagery and automatic linear representations. An early Surrealist and student of Cubism, Masson went on to inspire the New York Abstract Expressionists. Masson developed a technique of automatic painting that retained the element of chance; he dripped glue onto paper to form drawings and then covered it with sand. These ‘sand paintings’ are unquestionably his most iconic style.

When Masson emigrated to the U.S. in 1939, he strongly influenced several American painters with this technique, the most evident example being Jackson Pollack. After his time in America, he returned to Europe and while living in Spain during the mid-1930s, he became enraptured with Spanish themes—bullfights, matadors and Spanish mythology. Masson finally settled down in France (Aix-en-Provence), where he took up a late interest in impressionistic landscape, but he ultimately came to a place where he painted nearly exclusively abstract images. Masson dedicated his life as an artist to encouraging the non-rational purpose in art, to the direct transference of subconscious thought and to the primal forces of conflicts that he experienced in the trenches of World War One. Masson sought to convey in his work a deeper reality of man’s behavior, his own complex personal imagery, and his belief that painting is not a matter of developing style but a part of life itself.

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Artist: André Masson
Profil rose
By André Masson
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Signed and numbered 14/200 in pencil.
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Surrealist Composition 9 - Original Collotype Print by A. Masson - 20th Century
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Surrealist Composition 9 is an original collotype realized by André Masson. The artwork is in good conditions, no signature on a yellowed paper. André Masson (1896-1987)was a Frenc...
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Surrealist Composition 10 - Original Collotype by André Masson -Mid-20th century
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Surrealist Composition 10 is an original collotype print realized by André Masson. The artwork is in good conditions, no signature on a yellowed paper. André Masson (1896-1987)was ...
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Abstract Composition - Lithograph by André Masson - 1970s
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original colored lithograph realized in the half of XX century. The artwork is hand signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left. Edition...
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Faune et Femme au Armure - Etching by André Masson - 1966
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 30x24 cm. Edition of 50 prints, numbered and hand signed by the Artist. Excellent conditions. Insurance may be requested by customers as additional service, contac...
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Galerie Louis Leiris - Lithograph by André Masson - 1968
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
This is an hand signed lithograph by André Masson, with dedication. André Masson was a French artist, well-known as part of the Surrealism. He was a painter but also a sculptor and ...
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La Fete de Pan
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 32x41 cm. Limited edition of 50 prints, numbered and hand signed by the Artist. Excellent conditions.
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Amazones
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Limited edition of 50 prints, numbered and hand signed. Excellent conditions.
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Apollon et Dionysos
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21x33 cm. Edition of 50 prints by Galerie Louis Leiris, numbered and hand signed by the Artist. Excellent conditions. This artw...
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Les Jardins d'Armide
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Limited edition of 150 prints. One of the only 20 prints to be realized in black and green. Numbered and hand signed by the Artist. Excellent conditions.
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André Masson - Original Lithograph
By André Masson
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Masson - Composition Original Lithograph 1969 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Revue XXe Siècle Cahiers d'art published under the direction of G. di San Laz...
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Abstract Composition - Original Lithograph by André Masson - 1970s
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original color lithograph realized in the half of the XX century by Andre Masson. Hand-signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left. Edit...
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