{"title":"André Masson","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndré Masson (1896–1987, Balagny-sur-Thérain) was a French painter and draughtsman whose practice from the early 1920s onwards placed him at the centre of Surrealism and established automatic drawing as one of the movement’s defining techniques. Severely wounded in the First World War — an experience that left lasting psychological and physical effects — Masson developed a practice rooted in violence, eroticism, mythology and the unconscious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis automatic drawings of 1924–25, produced by allowing the hand to move freely across the page without conscious direction, were among the earliest and most radical applications of automatism to visual art. His sand paintings of the same period, made by throwing glue and sand onto canvas and working into the resulting forms, extended this approach into three dimensions. Works such as \u003cem\u003eBattle of Fishes\u003c\/em\u003e (1926) and the \u003cem\u003eMassacres\u003c\/em\u003e series combined mythological violence with biomorphic abstraction in images of extraordinary intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMasson’s friendship with Jean Paulhan — who championed his work through \u003cem\u003eLa Nouvelle Revue française\u003c\/em\u003e — was among the most significant of his career. His inclusion in \u003cem\u003eCentenaire de Jean Paulhan: De la peinture et de l’écrit\u003c\/em\u003e (Le Bateau-Lavoir, Paris, 1984) reflects that longstanding connection. His work is held in major collections including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"centenaire-jean-paulhan-peinture-ecrit-bateau-lavoir-paris-1984","title":"ARTAUD, ALECHINSKY, BRAQUE, ERNST, CHAGALL, BALTHUS, KLEE, DUBUFFET, MICHAUX et al. — Centenaire de Jean Paulhan: De la peinture et de l’écrit. 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The accompanying catalogue was prepared by Mira Jacob and Claire Paulhan and combined reproductions with manuscript material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs editor of \u003cem\u003eLa Nouvelle Revue française\u003c\/em\u003e and a longstanding reader and supporter of painters, Paulhan occupied a position between literary publishing and visual art. His correspondence, criticism and editorial work connected figures who otherwise belonged to different generations and movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation converts that network into a page. Names are distributed without chronology or hierarchy, moving between writers, painters and artist-writers. The centenary is recorded not through a portrait of Paulhan, but through the company assembled around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat, securely backed and tracked from the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Le Bateau-Lavoir","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54010298401106,"sku":"PAULHAN-BATEAULAVOIR-INV-1984","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Artaud_Alechinsky_Braque_Ernst_Chagall_Balthus._Show_invite_of_painting_and_writing_._1984.jpg?v=1784181297"},{"product_id":"editions-brunidor-estampes-livres-illustres-paris-1973","title":"BUTOR, LAUDE, BRYEN, DOMELA, HÉLION, HÉROLD, MASSON — Estampes et livres illustrés des Éditions Brunidor. Paris, 1973","description":"\u003cp\u003e55 quai de Valmy, Paris, 24–25 November 1973. Original private exhibition invitation issued by Roberto and Maggy Altmann. Offset printing in pale grey and orange on white card stock, 13.5 × 10.5 cm. Unprinted verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Very good. Light age toning, faint handling marks and minor corner and edge wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eÉditions Brunidor was founded in New York in 1947 by Robert Altmann. Its first portfolio brought together Matta, Wifredo Lam, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, Stanley William Hayter, Kurt Seligmann and Joan Miró. By 1977, the Bibliothèque nationale recorded seven portfolios and twenty-five illustrated books, produced through collaboration between writers, artists, printers and publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe names printed here — Michel Butor, Jean Laude, Camille Bryen, César Domela, Jean Hélion, Jacques Hérold and André Masson — trace that movement between writing, printmaking and the book. Four years earlier, Brunidor’s publications had been presented by the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris in \u003cem\u003eLe Livre comme œuvre d’art\u003c\/em\u003e, installed on a structure designed by Ricardo Porro.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis invitation returns the publishing programme to a private address. The artists and writers are reduced to surnames; the sender remains an empty line beneath \u003cem\u003einvitation personnelle de la part de\u003c\/em\u003e. The object was completed through circulation: a name added, a card passed on, an entry granted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat, securely backed and tracked from the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Éditions Brunidor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54010417578322,"sku":"BRUNIDOR-ALTMANN-INV-1973","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Butor_Michel._Laude_Jean._Bryen_Camille._Domela_Cesar._Helion_Jean._Herold_Jacques._Masson_Andre._Show_invite._1973.jpg?v=1784185855"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/andre-masson.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}