Lot n° 102
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60000 - 80000
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: 42 000EUR
André MASSON (1896-1987)
Landscape with a dead bird, 1931
Oil on canvas.
39 x 53 cm
Provenance:
- Artist's studio
- Paul Rosenberg (n° PH 3020), certificate of provenance signed by Alexandre P. Rosenberg
- Alexandre P. Rosenberg
- Private collection
- 14 May 1980, New York, Sotheby's Parke Bernet Inc, Modern Paintings and Sculptures, lot 157
Bibliography:
Guite Masson, Martin Masson, Catherine Loewer, André Masson, Catalogue raisonée de l'oeuvre peint 1919-1941, Volume II, 1930-1941, Vaumarcus, Art Acatos, 2010, reproduced p. 110, n° 1931*31
Let us summarize the major conditions of the work of imagination that has some chance of lasting. We have seen that automatism - the investigation of the powers of the unconscious - dreams, associations of images only provide material. Likewise, the themes offered to us by Nature (the elements and the kingdoms). The real power of a work of imagination, the effect of surprise abolished, will therefore be the result of the following three conditions: 1. The intensity of the prior meditation.
2. The freshness of the view of the outside world.
3. The necessity to know the pictorial means proper to the art of this time (it should also be remembered that Delacroix's reflection: "A figurative work must be above all a feast for the eyes", remains entirely true).
Does this mean that reflection will have to take precedence over instinct or intelligence over what is commonly called inspiration?
Not at all: the fusion of the heterogeneous elements brought into play by the painter-poet will be accomplished with the lightning speed of light. The unconscious and the conscious, intuition and understanding will have to transmute into super-consciousness, into radiant unity.
André Masson, Peindre est une gageure (André Masson, Mythes et chimères, Paris,
Artcurial, 1986, p. 44)
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