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André Masson

Composition

1967

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  • Artist André Masson (French, 1896–1987)
  • Title Composition
  • Date 1967
  • Medium Lithograph
  • Edition description 13/130
  • Credit line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Jick, 1987
  • Object number WU 1987.7

Dada and Surrealism: Rethinking Reason
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/28/2011 - 04/18/2011

1987
Dr. and Mrs. Sidney S. Jick

Inscription LR: "André Masson"/ Inscriptions: LL "13/130"

Inscription Print date 1967 confirmed by Eric Mourlot, Galerie Mourlot, New York, email dated January 7, 2011. Lithograph and poster were printed at Atelier Mourlot, Paris and then shipped to New York. Galerie Mourlot comissioned Andre Masson, Alexander Calder, Alex Katz, Jack Levine, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, Bernard Buffet, Andre Minaus, and Andre Beaudin (and possibly more) to create a series of signed/numbered editions and an accompanying poster edition to celebrate the opening of the New York location on Bank Street. In 1972 the New York location closed, but it had moved to Barrow Street by then. Kim Broker, Asst. Registrar

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