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ANDRÉ MASSON (1896-1987)
Le fauteuil Louis XVI
signed 'André Masson' (upper left)
oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 23 3/8 in. (73.2 x 59.3 cm.)
Painted in 1938
Provenance
Galerie Simon [Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler], Paris, by 1965.
Buchholz Gallery [Curt Valentin], New York.
Saidenberg Gallery, New York.
Henry A. Markus, Chicago, by whom acquired from the above in 1968, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 2012, lot 41.
Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2012.
Literature
A. Breton, 'Prestige d'André Masson', in Minotaure, vols. 12-13, Paris, 1939, pp. 13-15 (illustrated p. 14).
A. Masson, 'Life and Liberty', in Art in Australia, series 4. no. 5, Sydney, 1 March 1942, p. 13 (illustrated).
M. Jean, The History of Surrealist Painting, Paris, 1959, p. 294 (titled 'The Louis XV Armchair').
O. Hahn, Masson, New York, 1965, p. 76 (illustrated pl. 47).
J.-P. Clébert, Mythologie d'André Masson, Geneva, 1971, no. 106 (illustrated; with inverted dimensions).
G. Brownstone, André Masson Vagabond du Surréalisme, Paris, 1975, p. 96 (illustrated).
W. Rubin & C. Lanchner, André Masson exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1976, p. 41 (illustrated; dated '1938-1939').
'André Masson vom Automatismus zur Allegorie' in Kunstforum International, 1987, p. 128 (illustrated).
C. Morando, Peinture, dessin, sculpture et littérature autour du Collège de Sociologie pendant l'entre-deux-guerres, 2000, Paris, no. 268, p. 1388 (illustrated).
M. Ries, 'André Masson: Surrealism and His Discontents', in Art Journal, vol. 61, no. 4, New York, 2002, pp. 79-80 (illustrated p. 80).
E. Darragon, ed., La provocation: Une dimension de l'art contemporain (XIXe-XXe siècles), Paris, 2004, p. 102.
G. & M. Masson & C. Lœwer, André Masson Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, vol. II, 1930-1941, Vaumarcus, 2010, no. 1938*6, p. 326 (illustrated p. 327).
Exhibited
Mexico, Galeri´a de Arte Mexicano, Exposicio´n internacional del surrealismo, January - February 1940, no. 51 (illustrated).
New York, Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, First Papers of Surrealism, October - November 1942 (illustrated).
Paris, Museé National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris - Paris: Créations en France 1937-1957, May - November 1981, no. 430 bis, p. 512 (illustrated p. 78).
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, In the Mind's Eye: Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, December 1984 - January 1985, p. 184 (illustrated pl. 42, p.185; dated '1938-1939').
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