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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 5, 2025 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 116 | $****** - ****** | Les cerfs-volants |
paintings
97.2 x 108 cm (38.25 x 42.5 in)
oil, tempera and sand on canvas
signed ‘André Masson" (on the reverse)
Galerie Simon [Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler], Paris.
Private collection, Paris, by whom acquired from the above, circa 1927, and thence by descent.
Private collection, Paris, by whom acquired from the above in 1993.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1999.
Aosta, Museo Archeologico, André Masson, La saggezza delirante della natura, July - October 1995, p. 53 (illustrated).
Nice, Museé d"Art Moderne et d"Art Contemporain, Des Modernes aux Avant-gardes, June - October 1997, no. 1049, pp. 82 & 256 (illustrated p. 82).
Paris, Musée National d"Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, La Révolution Surréaliste , March - June 2002, p. 124 (illustrated).
Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe, André Masson: Bilder aus dem Labrynth der Seele Vues du labryinthe de l"âme , March - April 2003, no. 24, pp. 60 & 355 (illustrated p. 60).
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, André Masson, January - April 2004, p. 103 (illustrated).
Künzelsau, Museum Würth, André Masson, A Mythology of Nature, September 2004 - January 2005, p. 42 (illustrated).
Utsunomiya, Museum of Art, Surrealism and Art - Image and Reality , April - June 2007, no. 22, pp. 58 & 59 (illustrated p. 58; detail illustrated p. 59); this exhibition later travelled to Toyota, Muncipal Museum of Art, July - September 2007 and Yokohama, Museum of Art, September - December 2007.
Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Surrealismus Paris-Prag - Gegen jede Vernunft , November 2009 - February 2010, no. 23, pp. 98 & 352 (illustrated p. 98).
Metz, Centre Pompidou-Metz, André Masson, There is no finished world, March - September 2024.
Paris, Musée National d"Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Surréalisme, September 2024 - January 2025, p. 227 (illustrated p. 23).
J. J. Sweeney, Joan Miró , exh. cat., New York, 1941, p. 43 (illustrated).
W. Rubin & C. Lanchner, André Masson , exh. cat., New York, 1976, p. 88 (illustrated).
C. Morando, Peinture, Dessins, Sculpture et Littérature autour du Collège de Sociologie pendant l"entre-deux-guerres , Paris, 2000, no. 106, p.1245 (illustrated).
Exh. cat., André Masson - La ricera dell"oltre, Modena, 2006, pp. 34 & 35 (illustrated).
G. Masson, M. Masson & C. Lœwer, André Masson, Catalogue raisonné de l"oeuvre peint , vol. I, 1919-1941 , Paris, 2010, no. 1927*3, p. 334 (illustrated p. 335).
ANDRÉ MASSON (1896-1987)
Les cerfs-volants
signed ‘André Masson" (on the reverse)
oil, tempera and sand on canvas
38 ¼ x 42 ½ in. (97 x 108 cm.)
Painted in 1927
