LE FOND DE LA MER (HOMMAGE À BOTTICELLI), 1937
Sand, shells and seaweed on panel, signed on the back, 27 x 35 cm.
27 x 35 cm
History :
Simon Gallery, Paris
Cazeau-Béraudière Gallery, Paris
Exhibitions :
Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, January - February 1938.
André Masson-Alberto Giacometti, Kunsthalle Basel, May-June 1950, catalog n°35.
André Masson, Retrospective, Malborough Fine Arts, London, November 1958, catalog n°11.
The genius of André Masson, Blue Moon and Lerner-Heller, New-York, May-June 1976, reproduced in the exhibition catalog under n°1, p.7.
Masson: massaker, metamorphosen, mytologien, Kunst Museum Bern, September 13 - November 24, 1996.
André Masson: 1930's, Salvador Dali Museum, Saint Petersburg, Florida, October 1999 - January 2000, reproduced in the exhibition catalog under n°29, p.93.
La Révolution Surréaliste, Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 06 March - 24 June 2002, reproduced in the catalog on p.33.
André Masson, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 29 January- 19 April 2004, reproduced in the exhibition catalog on p.166.
Art in war. France, 1938-1947: from Picasso to Dubuffet, Gugghenheim Museum, Bilbao, March 16 - September 8, 2013.
André Masson, a mythology of being and nature, Museum of Modern Art, Céret, June 22-October 27, 2019, reproduced in the exhibition catalog p.121.
Bibliography:
M. Leiris and G. Limbour, André Masson and his universe, Edition des Trois Collines, Geneva - Paris, 1947, reproduced on p. 229.
André Masson, exhibition catalog at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 5 March - 2 May 1977, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1977, reproduced on p.40.
Jean-Clarence Lambert, André Masson, Editions Filipacchi, Paris, 1979, reproduced on p.41.
Bernard Noël, André Masson, La chair du regard, Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1993, reproduced on p.45.
Yves Kobry, "Le Surréalisme contre nature" in La Révolution Surréaliste 1919-1944, Connaissance des Arts Hors-série n°175, Paris, p.26 à 33, reproduced on p.33.
Axel Matthes - Helmut Klewan, André Masson Gessamelte Schriften II, Matthes & Seitz Verlag, München, 2005, n°III.