Artist

Andre Masson

Nationality

French

Artist Dates

1896-1987

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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.

Condition

Excellent

Rights

Images are provided for educational purposes only and may not be reproduced for commercial use. Images may be protected by artist copyright. A credit line is required to be used for any public non-commercial educational purpose. The credit line must include, “Image courtesy of the University of North Dakota.”

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