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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2018 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 124 | $****** - ****** | Corrida mythologique |
paintings
90.5 x 85.4 cm (35.63 x 33.63 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'andré Masson' (lower right)
Galerie Simon, Paris, by 1936.
Curt Valentin Gallery, New York (no. 14779), by 1953.
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, by 1968.
Acquired from the above in the late 1960s, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Paris, Galerie Simon, André Masson: Espagne, 1934-1936, December 1936, no. 35.
Basel, Kunsthalle, André Masson, Alberto Giacometti, May - June 1950.
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, André Masson: Recent Work and earlier Paintings, April - May 1953, no. 38 (illustrated n.p.).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Classical Motif, 1953 - 1954.
Prague, Galerie Vincence Kramaré, Masson- Obrazy a Kresby, 1924-1966, May - June 1967, no. 6 (illustrated).
Marseille, Musée Cantini, André Masson, July - September 1968, no. 15, n.p. (illustrated n.p.).
Aix-en-Provence, Musée Granet, Palais de Malte, André Masson, Oeuvres de 1921 à 1975, July - October 1975, no. 14 (dated ‘1937’ and with inverted dimensions).
Bern, Kunstmuseum, Masson-Massaker-Metamorphosen- Mythologien, September - November 1996, no. 117, p. 109 (illustrated).
Nimes, Carré d’Art- Musée d’Art contemporain, La part de l’autre, May - September 2002, p. 58 (illustrated).
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, André Masson (1896-1987), January - April 2004, p. 158 (illustrated).
Andros, Museum of Contemporary Art, André Masson and Ancient Greece, June - September 2007, no. 44, n.p. (illustrated).
P.-G. de Persin, D.-H. Kahnweiler- Aventure d’un grand marchand, Paris, 1990, p. 173 (illustrated).
C. Morando, Peinture, Dessin, Sculpture et Littérature autour du Collège de Sociologie pendant l’entre-deux-guerres, Paris, 2000, no. 594, p. 1702 (illustrated).
G. & M. Masson & C. Loewer, André Masson, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1919-1941, vol. II, 1930-1941, Manchester, 2010, no. 1936-15, p. 264 (illustrated p. 265).
signed 'andré Masson' (lower right)
oil on canvas
35 5/8 x 33 5/8 in. (90.3 x 85.4 cm.)
Painted in 1936
