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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2017 | Sotheby's | London | Surrealist Art Evening Sale | 47 | $****** - ****** | HÔTEL DES AUTOMATES |
paintings
71 x 92 cm (27.95 x 36.22 in)
oil on canvas
signed André Masson (lower left)
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Saidenberg Gallery, New York
Stanley Mateus, New York
Mr & Mrs Ira Haupt, New York (acquired by 1961. Sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 20th Century Paintings from the Ira Haupt Collection, 13th January 1965, lot 12)
Daniel C. Mattis, New York (purchased at the above sale)
Sale: Christie's, New York, 3rd November 1981, lot 54
Private Collection, Europe (sold: Christie's, London, 30th June 1999, lot 513)
Jean-Claude Binoche, Paris (purchased at the above sale. Sold: Sotheby's, New York, 5th May 2010, lot 21)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), André Masson, 1942, no. 8
New York, Saidenberg Gallery, André Masson - Retrospective Exhibition, 1961, no. 16 (as dating from 1942)
New York, Blue Moon Gallery & Lerner-Heller Gallery, André Masson, 1972, no. 15
New York, Blue Moon & Lerner-Heller Gallery, André Masson: Second Surrealist Period, 1975, no. 16, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Boise, Idaho, The Boise Gallery of Art & Salt Lake City, Art Center, Through the Open Door: A View of Surrealism and Beyond, 1980-81, no. 8
St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, André Masson: the 1930s, 1999-2000, no. 47, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe, André Masson - Bilder aus dem Labyrinth der Seele / Vues du labyrinth de l'âme, 2003, no. 45, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (with incorrect measurements)
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, André Masson, 2004, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Gegen jede Vernunft Surrealismus Paris - Prag, 2009-10, no. 104, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (with incorrect measurements)
André Breton, Le Surréalisme et la peinture, Paris, 1945 & 1965, illustrated p. 64
Jean-Paul Clébert, Mythologie d'André Masson, Geneva, 1971, no. 130, illustrated (incorrectly titled Hôtel des Aromates)
Bernard Noël, André Masson. La chair du regard, Paris, 1993, illustrated in colour p. 111
Guite Masson, Martin Masson & Catherine Lœwer, André Masson. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Vaumarcus, 2010, vol. II, no. 1939/1941*3, illustrated in colour p. 405
signed André Masson (lower left)
oil on canvas
71 by 92cm.
28 by 36 1/4 in.
Painted in 1939-41.
