Aquatint and etching on cream wove paper, 1945. 197x148 mm; 7 3/4x6 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 10/30 in pencil, lower margin. A very good, richly-inked impression of this scarce print.
André Masson (1896-1987) was associated with Surrealism in Paris during the 1920s/1930s. From the mid-1920s his work became more experimental: he made paintings by throwing sand and glue on canvases, basing the compositions on the shapes they formed, and he created numerous "automatic" ink drawings by freely and spontaneously scribbling on sheets of paper. These highly expressive works were an important influence on the first generation of New York School, particularly Jackson Pollock.
André Masson created an etching for the Atelier 17 printed Solidarité portfolio in 1938 and then made several additional prints at Atelier 17 in New York during the 1940s, when he had escaped World War II and Nazi occupied Paris and come to live in New Preston, Connecticut. Saphire 94.
