FEMME TENANT UN OISEAU, 1924-25
Oil on canvas, signed and titled on the back of the frame.
55 x 33 cm
History :
Simon Gallery, Paris
The Mayor Gallery, London
Gallery H. Odermatt - Ph. Cazeau, Paris
Jan Krugier Gallery, Geneva
Die Galerie, Frankfurt am Main
Exhibitions :
André Masson, masterpieces, Galerie H. Odermatt - Ph. Cazeau, Paris, December 1990 - February 1991, reproduced in the exhibition catalog under n°6, p.23.
Surrealism, Revolution by Night, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, March 12 - May 2, 1993 then Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, May 21 - July 11, 1993, Art Gallery of South Wales, Sydney, July 30 - September 19, 1993, reproduced in the exhibition catalog under n°194, p.23.
Masson et Matta, Les deux universes, April-June 1994, Yokohama Museum of Art, reproduced in the exhibition catalog under n°4 p.32.
André Masson - Retrospektive, Die Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, 2003, reproduced in the exhibition catalog.
André Masson, Bilder aus dem Labyrinth der Seele, Views from the Labyrinth of the Soul, March 9 - April 27, 2003, Mathildenhöhe Institute, Darmstadt, reproduced in the exhibition catalog under no. 201, p.42.
André Masson, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, January 29-April 19, 2004, reproduced in the exhibition catalog on p.89.
Dali, Magritte, Miro, Surrealism in Paris, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, 2 October 2011-29 January 2012.
André Masson, a mythology of being and nature, Museum of Modern Art, Céret, June 22-October 27, 2019, reproduced in the exhibition catalog.
Bibliography:
Dawn Ades, André Masson. Les grands maîtres de l'Art Contemporain, Spanish edition: Ediciones Poligrafa SA, Barcelona; French edition: Albin Michel, Paris, 1994, reproduced under n°22.
André Masson, catalog raisonné of the painted work, volume I (1919-1929), Art Acatos & Hudson Hills Press, 2010, n°1924*14, p.192.