Nationality
French
Artist Dates
1896-1987
Preview
Date of Work
1973
Medium
Etching and aquatint
Edition #
71/100
Signature
Lower right
Height
19 3/4" (framed)
Width
15 3/4" (framed)
Collection/Provenance
Published by The Committee to Endow a Chair in Honor of Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996) at Columbia University.
Art & Design Study Collection
Status
Stored: R25
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
Masson was an important French painter, whose career emerged during the formative years of the Surrealist movement. He was an abstract surrealist who relied on automatist methods. During the Second World War, Masson spent several years in exile in the United States, where he had a solo show at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1941, as well as exhibiting in New York and elsewhere. The notable Art critic Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) felt that Masson and his art had considerable influence on the emergence of Abstract Expressionism in New York.
Additional Information
This artwork is from a portfolio of original prints published in recognition of Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996), a distinguished art historian who was very much appreciated by major contemporary artists of his day.
In 1974, a committee was formed to establish a Chair in Art History at Columbia University in Schapiro's honor. The portfolio, published in an edition of 100, was produced to raise funds to support the Chair. UND’s set of portfolio prints are numbered 71/100.