ANIMAUX ACCOUPLES, 1927 / 1986-1987
Bronze.
40.40 x 58.40 cm
Model designed in 1927 and cast in 1986.
Casting Brustolin, Verona, 1986-1987.
Publisher: Due Ci Gallery, Rome.
First edition of 11 proofs, this one numbered EA2.
Exhibition :
André Masson, a mythology of being and nature, Musée d'art moderne de Céret, June 22 - October 27, 2019.
Bibliography:
Roger Passeron, André Masson, general catalog of sculptures, Il Quadrante Edizioni, Turin, 1987, model reproduced under n°3 and commented on p. 75 to 79.
André Masson, master works, Galerie H. Odermatt - Ph. Cazeau, Paris, December 1990 - February 1991, reproduced in the exhibition catalog under n°67, p.151.
History, according to Roger Passeron:
"From 1927 to 1941 André Masson always interested in sculpture, devoted to it a part of his enormous activity as a painter, draughtsman, theater decorator, engraver. Numerous studies, numerous projects were born but he did not have the time - he traveled a lot - to find the opportunity or simply the way to the foundries because he was very often out of Paris, even out of France; so he stored up projects for the future as shown by a project of animal coupling on the back of which André Masson wrote in 1928: "drawing for a sculpture 1927". It was in 1986 that he decided to make a bronze print."
Roger Passeron, André Masson, general catalog of sculptures, Il Quadrante Edizioni, Turin, 1987, p.75.