La Femme paralytique
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
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