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Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

André Masson

1896 - 1987


La Femme paralytique

signed andré Masson (lower right)

oil on canvas

113.7 by 146.1 cm. 44¾ by 57½ in.

Executed in 1939.


Formerly in the collection of Simone Collinet.

Galerie Simon (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris

Simone Collinet, Paris (acquired by 1969)

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Isidore Ducasse Fine Art, New York

Galerie Odermatt, Geneva

Christie's, New York, 16 May 1985, lot 408

Champin, Lombrail, Gautier, Paris, 21 November 1989, lot 30

Sotheby's, New York, 7 November 1991, lot 176

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Michel Leiris and Georges Limbour, André Masson et son univers, Geneva and Paris, 1947, n.n., p. 165, illustrated

Jean-Paul Clébert, Mythologie d’André Masson, Geneva, 1971, no. 121, n.p., illustrated

Bernard Noël, André Masson. La chair du regard, Paris, 1993, n.n., p. 105, illustrated in colour

Guite Masson, Martin Masson and Catherine Loewer, André Masson, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 1930-1941, vol. II, Vaumarcus, 2010, no. 1939*5, pp. 358-59, illustrated in colour

New York, D’Arcy Galleries, Surrealist Intrusion in the Enchanters' Domain, 1960-61, n.n., p. 91, illustrated (dated 1938)

Knokke-le-Zoute, Casino Communal, XXIIe Festival Belge d’éte, André Masson, 1969, no. 24, n.p., illustrated