Property from a Private Collection
ANDRÉ MASSON | LA ROCHELLE, JAUNE, ROUGE, ORANGE
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December 17, 05:40 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
ANDRÉ MASSON
(1896 - 1987)
LA ROCHELLE, JAUNE, ROUGE, ORANGE
Signed andré Masson. (lower left); titled and dated 1947 (on the stretcher)
Oil on canvas
32½ by 37¾ in. (82.6 by 95.9 cm)
Framed: 38 by 43¼ in. (96.5 by 109.9 cm)
Painted in 1946.
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by the Comité Masson.
Galerie Simon, Paris
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Private Collection, United States
Thence by decent
Françoise Will-Levaillant, "André Masson et le temps des Cahiers du sud—correspondence entre André Masson et Jean et Marcelle Ballard", in Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, 1982, illustrated p. 230 (titled La Rochelle)
Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, André Masson—oeuvres nouvelles, 1947, no. 18 (dated 1947)
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Landscapes by André Masson, 1949, no. 3 (titled La Rochelle and with incorrect dimensions)
Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, André Masson, Alberto Giacometti, 1950, no. 51 (titled La Rochelle)