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ANDRÉ MASSON (1896 - 1987, FRENCH) Study for l'Histoire de l'Oeil.
Pencil on tissue paper, c. 1928. Signed, André Masson, lower left. 273x222 mm; 10 3/4x8 3/4 inches.
Provenance: Lawrence Saphire; thence by descent to the current owner.
This drawing is a more elaborate variation of Masson's final composition used as the frontispiece to Georges Bataille's "l'Histoire de l'Oeil.' Bataille published the book under the pseudonym, Lord Auch in 1928.
