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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

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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)