🌟🎨 RARE 1968 Andre Masson Lithograph 🎨🌟
Dive into the world of surrealism with this exquisite piece of art history! This unique and valuable lithograph by the renowned artist Andre Masson is a collector’s dream. 💫✨
Gallerie Louise Leiris was a fine art gallery in Paris established by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler in 1920. Initially, the business was known as the Galerie Simon. It was named after Kahnweiler’s partner, André Simon. In 1940, the business was turned over to Louise Leiris, who was Kahnweiler’s sister in law. It was run under her name. Prominent among the artists who sold paintings through this gallery were Pablo Picasso, André Masson, Juan Gris, and Fernand Leger. The gallery continued in business for several decades selling thousands of Picasso, Masson, and Dalà paintings in affordable at the time prices2
Mourlot Freres was a commercial print shop founded in 1852 by the Mourlot family and located in Paris, France. It started off producing wallpaper and later expanded to include chocolate labels, ledgers, maps, and stationery. In the 1920s, production was dedicated to printing fine art lithography under the direction of Fernand Mourlot, and later expanded to include Verve, a periodical art review magazine. Over the years it has been known as Imprimerie Mourlot, Mourlot Freres and Atelier Mourlot3
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Andre Masson was a French painter and graphic artist born on January 4, 1896 in Balagny, Oise, France. He studied painting in Brussels and then in Paris. He fought in World War I and was severely wounded. He joined the emergent Surrealist group in the mid-1920s after one of his paintings had attracted the attention of the movement’s leader, André Breton. Masson soon became the foremost practitioner of automatic writing, which, when applied to drawing, was a form of spontaneous composition intended to express impulses and images arising directly from the unconscious. Masson’s paintings and drawings from the late 1920s and the ’30s are turbulent, suggestive renderings of scenes of violence, eroticism, and physical metamorphosis. A natural draftsman, he used sinuous, expressive lines to delineate biomorphic forms that border on the totally abstract. Masson lived in Spain from 1934 to 1936 and in the United States during World War II. His work was the subject of major retrospective exhibitions in Basel, Switzerland (1950) and New York City (1976) 1.
Gallerie Louise Leiris was a fine art gallery in Paris established by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler in 1920. Initially, the business was known as the Galerie Simon. It was named after Kahnweiler’s partner, André Simon. In 1940, the business was turned over to Louise Leiris, who was Kahnweiler’s sister in law. It was run under her name. Prominent among the artists who sold paintings through this gallery were Pablo Picasso, André Masson, Juan Gris, and Fernand Leger. The gallery continued in business for several decades selling thousands of Picasso, Masson, and Dalà paintings in affordable at the time prices 23.
Mourlot Freres was a commercial print shop founded in 1852 by the Mourlot family and located in Paris, France. It started off producing wallpaper and later expanded to include chocolate labels, ledgers, maps, and stationery. In the 1920s, production was dedicated to printing fine art lithography under the direction of Fernand Mourlot, and later expanded to include Verve, a periodical art review magazine. Over the years it has been known as Imprimerie Mourlot, Mourlot Freres and Atelier Mourlot. Mourlot assisted Matisse, Braque, Bonnard, Rouault and Joan Miró in the creation of important lithographs for the review. In 1945, Pablo Picasso selected the Mourlot studio for his return to the lithographic medium. Between 1945 and 1969, Picasso created over four hundred lithographs at Mourlot. This collaboration would break new ground in the lithographic process and lend a new dimension to Picasso’s work 24.