ANDRÉ MASSON | LA FEMME MULTIPLÉE

Boibrino Gallery, Stockholm

Private Collection, Stockholm (acquired from the above before 2001 and sold: Sotheby's, New York, February 21, 2002, lot 100)

Wendel F. Kent, Sarasota, Florida (acquired at the above sale and sold by the Estate: Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, December 14, 2017, lot 96)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

An extraordinarily agile artist, Masson created a diverse body of work that spans several movements including Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. The present painting, completed in the mature years of the artist’s career, embodies the artist’s unique approach—specifically his integration of color, line and form in a style that is at once figurative and abstract. In La Femme multiplée, an explosion of calligraphic lines and red colors are set against a vast expanse of lavender. The presence of multiple female figures hearkens back to Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Duchamp's Nu descendant l'escalier.