Lot 195
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ANDRÉ MASSON | Dominos et tabatière

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Masson, André
  • Dominos et tabatière 
  • Signed andré Masson (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 10 5/8 by 15 3/4 in.
  • 27 by 40 cm
  • Painted circa 1922-25.

Provenance

Galerie Simon, Paris
Obelisk Gallery, London 
Salome Estorick, London (and sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, October 23, 1980, lot 234)
Acquired at the above sale

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Simon, André Masson, 1924, no. 44
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Cubism and Its Influence, 1965, no. 62

Literature

Guite Masson, Martin Masson & Catherine Loewer, André Masson, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint 1919-1941, vol. I, Paris, 2010, no. 1923*1938, illustrated p. 149

Condition

The canvas has not been lined. The surface is slightly dirty. There is a nailhead sized loss in the light green pigments along the bottom edge. Under UV light, no inpainting is apparent.
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