DUO AMOROSO, 1939 /1986- 1987
DUO AMOROSO, 1939 /1986- 1987
55 x 84.60 cm
Model designed in 1939 and cast in 1986.
Casting Brustolin, Verona, 1986-1987.
Publisher: Due Ci Gallery, Rome.
Edition of 11 proofs, this one numbered EA1.
Bibliography :
Roger Passeron, André Masson, general catalog of sculptures, Il Quadrante Edizioni, Turin, 1987, model reproduced under n°7 and commented on p. 88 to 89.
André Masson, master works, Galerie H. Odermatt - Ph. Cazeau, Paris, December 1990 - February 1991, reproduced in the exhibition catalog under n°71, p.159.
History, according to Roger Passeron:
"This sculpture was also conceived during the artist's second surrealist period. It is more compact than the previous one and some of the forms prefigure, in a more massive way, the drawings of musical instruments made in New Preston (Connecticut) in 1942.
André Masson had planned to specify a graphism reinforced by incisions on his sculpture, particularly for the breast on the right."
Roger Passeron, André Masson, general catalog of sculptures, Il Quadrante Edizioni, Turin, 1987, p.88.