André Masson *
(Balagny/Oise 1896–1987 Paris)
“L‘Espagne assassinée”, 1938, etching on laid paper, signed André Masson, additionally monogrammed in the plate, no. 52 from the edition of 150 numbered impressions, plate size 8 x 11 cm, sheet size 22.7 x 16.7 cm, from Paul Eluard “Solidarité”, printed at Atelier 17/Paris, published by Les Presses G. L. M. (Guy Levis Mano)/Paris, Saphire 65, Cramer (Illustrated Books) 12, lower left corner with light bend, (RAC)
A superb print with fine plate tone.
Paul Eluard’s poem ‘Solidarité’ was first published in 1936 in the communist newspaper L’Humanité. In order to support the Spanish Republican Children's Fund during the Spanish Civil War, Stanley William Hayter decided to publish a portfolio with Paul Eluard’s poem and graphic works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Yves Tanguy, André Masson, John Buckland Wright, Dalla Husband and Hayter himself.
Masson’s etching thematises the civil war in a surrealist-symbolic transformation: a bird injures itself with its claws. Blood drips from its injured eye, and a swastika grows out of its grotesquely dislocated leg.
Specialist: Raphael Achterberg, MA
Raphael Achterberg, MA
+43-1-515 60-557
raphael.achterberg@dorotheum.at
21.06.2024 - 15:01
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EUR 1,200.-
André Masson *
(Balagny/Oise 1896–1987 Paris)
“L‘Espagne assassinée”, 1938, etching on laid paper, signed André Masson, additionally monogrammed in the plate, no. 52 from the edition of 150 numbered impressions, plate size 8 x 11 cm, sheet size 22.7 x 16.7 cm, from Paul Eluard “Solidarité”, printed at Atelier 17/Paris, published by Les Presses G. L. M. (Guy Levis Mano)/Paris, Saphire 65, Cramer (Illustrated Books) 12, lower left corner with light bend, (RAC)
A superb print with fine plate tone.
Paul Eluard’s poem ‘Solidarité’ was first published in 1936 in the communist newspaper L’Humanité. In order to support the Spanish Republican Children's Fund during the Spanish Civil War, Stanley William Hayter decided to publish a portfolio with Paul Eluard’s poem and graphic works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Yves Tanguy, André Masson, John Buckland Wright, Dalla Husband and Hayter himself.
Masson’s etching thematises the civil war in a surrealist-symbolic transformation: a bird injures itself with its claws. Blood drips from its injured eye, and a swastika grows out of its grotesquely dislocated leg.
Specialist: Raphael Achterberg, MA
Raphael Achterberg, MA
+43-1-515 60-557
raphael.achterberg@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Modern and Contemporary Prints |
| Auction type: | Online auction |
| Date: | 21.06.2024 - 15:01 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 15.06. - 21.06.2024 |