"Bacchanale from Je Reve (I Dream) Portfolio, " Original Color Lithograph

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André Masson
"Bacchanale from Je Reve (I Dream) Portfolio, " Original Color Lithograph
1975

About the Item

"Bacchanale" is an original color lithograph by Andre Masson. This piece is from the Je Reve (I Dream) portfolio and is edition number H.C. XVV/XVV. Masson signed the piece in pencil in the lower right. This print depicts a surreal female figure on the back of a bull. Other figures and plants surround this central figure. All is rendered in gestural lines and bright colors. Framed in a traditional moulding with a brushed gold finsih. 25 3/4" x 19 3/4" paper 33 5/8" x 27 5/8" frame André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but was brought up in Belgium. He began his study of art at the age of eleven in Brussels, at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts under the guidance of Constant Montald, and later he studied in Paris. His early works display an interest in cubism. He later became associated with surrealism, and he was one of the most enthusiastic employers of automatic drawing, making a number of automatic works in pen and ink. Masson would often force himself to work under strict conditions, for example, after long periods of time without food or sleep, or under the influence of drugs. He believed forcing himself into a reduced state of consciousness would help his art be free from rational control, and hence get closer to the workings of his subconscious mind. Masson experimented with altered states of consciousness with artists such as Antonin Artaud, Michel Leiris, Joan Miró, Georges Bataille, Jean Dubuffet, and Georges Malkine, who were neighbors of his studio in Paris. By the end of the 1920s, however, he was finding Automatic drawing rather restricting, and he left the surrealist movement and turned instead to a more structured style, often producing works with a violent or erotic theme, and making a number of paintings in reaction to the Spanish Civil War. Under the German occupation of France during World War II, his work was condemned by the Nazis as degenerate. With the assistance of Varian Fry in Marseille, Masson escaped the Nazi regime on a ship to the French island of Martinique from where he went on to the United States. Upon arrival in New York City, U.S. customs officials inspecting Masson's luggage found a cache of his erotic drawings. Denouncing them as pornographic, they ripped them up before the artist's eyes. Living in New Preston, Connecticut his work became an important influence on American abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock. Following the war, he returned to France and settled in Aix-en-Provence where he painted a number of landscapes.

Creator:
André Masson (1896-1987, French)
Creation Year:
1975
Dimensions:
Height: 33.625 in (85.41 cm)Width: 27.5 in (69.85 cm)
Medium:
Lithograph
Movement & Style:
Surrealist
Period:
1970-1979
Framing:
Frame Included
Framing Options Available
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Milwaukee, WI
Reference Number:
Seller: 5908d1stDibs: LU60532339311

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