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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 5, 2013 | Sotheby's | London | Surrealist Art | 51 | $****** - ****** | Aube À Montserrat | |||
Jun 26, 2001 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art | 274 | $****** - ****** | Aube a Monserrat | |||
Apr 1, 1987 | Sotheby's | London | N/A | 240 | Estimates not disclosed | Aube a Montserrat |
paintings
50 x 65 cm (19.69 x 25.59 in)
oil on canvas
signed André Masson (lower left)
Galerie Simon, Paris
Melle Eichman
Private Collection, Lugano
Galleria Toninelli, Milan
Edward Totah Gallery, London
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 1st April 1987, lot 240
Sale: Christie's, London, 26th June 2001, lot 274
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
André Masson, 'Du Haut de Montserrat' & Georges Bataille, 'Le Bleu du ciel', in Minotaure, vol. II, no. 8, 15/06, Paris, 1936, illustrated p. 50; Michel Leiris & Georges Limbour, André Masson et son univers, Geneva & Paris, 1947, illustrated p. 108; Arturo Schwarz, I Surrealisti, Milan, 1969, illustrated p. 62; Jean-Paul Clébert, Mythologie d'André Masson, Geneva, 1971, no. 91, illustrated (with incorrect measurements); Mattheus Bernd, Georges Bataille, Eine Thanatographie, Munich, 1984, vol. I, illustrated p. 333; Axel Matthes & Helmut Klewan, André Masson Gesammelte Schriften I, Munich, 1990, illustrated p. 191 (as dating from 1933); Glòria Bosch & Teresa Grandas, André Masson et Georges Bataille 'Complicitats', Tossa de Mar, 1994, illustrated p. 112; Dawn Ades, André Masson, Barcelona & Paris, 1994, no. 49, illustrated in colour; Glòria Bosch, 'Masson & Bataille. El antes y despues de Tossa de Mar', in Ars Mediterranea, vol. VIII, no. 7, Barcelona, 1995, no. 2, illustrated in colour p. 9; Georges Bataille, L'apprenti sorcier, Paris, 1999, illustrated in colour on the cover; David Lomas, The Haunted Self - Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, New Haven & London, 2000, no. 20, illustrated in colour p. 43; Camille Morando, Peinture, Dessin, Sculpture et Littérature autour du Collège de Sociologie pendant l'entre-deux-guerres (PhD), La Sorbonne, Université Paris IV, 2000, no. 162, illustrated in colour p. 1290; La Part du jeu et du rêve, Oscar Domínguez et le surréalisme 1906-1957 (exhibition catalogue), Musée Cantini, Marseille, 2005, fig. 69, illustrated in colour p. 68; Clark V. Poling, André Masson and the Surrealist Self, New Haven & London, 2008, no. 54, illustrated in colour p. 85; Guite Masson, Martine Masson & Catherine Loewer, André Masson, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, 1919-1941, Zurich, 2010, vol. II, no. 1935*5, illustrated in colour pp. 215-216 and on the back cover
