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Visage à travers les feuilles

Name: Visage à Travers Les Feuilles | Andre Masson
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 83804

Andre Masson

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French (1896–1987)

Date: 1945
Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of EA
Image Size: 9.75 x 8.75 inches
Size: 14 x 11 in. (35.56 x 27.94 cm)
Printer: George Miller, New York
Publisher: Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York
Reference: Saphire 106

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Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Visage a travers les feuilles.

Year: 1945, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 9.75 x 8.75 inches, Size: 14 x 11 in. (35.56 x 27.94 cm), Printer: George Miller, New York, Publisher: Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York, Reference: Saphire 106, Description: This portrait of the artist’s son Diego employs the technique of obscuring the face with solid areas (leaves) which in paintings of the period are of brilliant color. With only black lithography at his disposal, Masson transposes these color values into black and with singular effect, making this portrait the quintessential "American period" lithograph. From the collection of the late Larry Saphire.

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About The Artist: Andre Masson

French painter, b. 1896 in Balagny. The work of Andri Masson has an important place in the development of Surrealism. He began his studies before 1914, at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He served in the Great War in the fighting lines, and was severely wounded. The war experience of Masson affected him very deeply. The abnormal realities of trench warfare, with its domination by extreme...

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About The Medium: Lithograph

A print created using flat stones or metal plates. The artist creates a lithograph by drawing an image directly onto the printing element using materials like lithograph crayons or special grease pencils. After this, the drawing is transferred from the plate to the paper in multiples. A lithograph will not have dots when examined with a magnifying glass.

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