Born in 1896 in Balagny-sur- Thérain, a small village in France, André Masson spent most of his youth in Brussels, Belgium working as a pattern maker at an embroidery atelier. Masson began his schooling in 1907 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. In 1912, he relocated to Paris, where he attended the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1914, the artist was called to military duty for the First World War, where he was severely wounded and sent back to Paris. Much of Masson’s work is influenced by this trauma; his drawings and paintings executed during the 1920s represent battle scenes, blood, death, birds and fish. The strange realities of trench warfare and the immediate contiguity of life and death are drawn upon, and his imagery suggests a confrontation of life at an abnormal level of experience. His signature style deals with violence, evident in terrifying, fragmented figures, which reflect the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and WWII, as well as his troubled psyche in the aftermath of his service in WWI.
After WWI, Masson moved to the South of France, where he met Juan Gris, André Derain, Joan Miró and André Breton. Breton championed the Surrealist Manifesto and Masson joined in the group exhibition of the first Surrealists. An iconoclast, whose abrupt stylistic transitions defy classification, Masson also explored automatism (automatic drawing), a process that sought to express the creative force of the unconscious. These automatic drawings had no preconceived subject or composition. Like a medium channeling a spirit, Masson let his pen travel rapidly across the paper without conscious control. He soon found hints of images, fragmented bodies and objects, emerging from the abstract, lacelike web of pen marks. At times, Masson elaborated on these with conscious changes or additions, but he left the traces of the rapidly drawn ink mostly intact. Masson’s oeuvre explores several techniques of painting, drawing and sculpture and displays rich, colorful abstraction as well as monochrome imagery and automatic linear representations. An early Surrealist and student of Cubism, Masson went on to inspire the New York Abstract Expressionists. Masson developed a technique of automatic painting that retained the element of chance; he dripped glue onto paper to form drawings and then covered it with sand. These ‘sand paintings’ are unquestionably his most iconic style.
When Masson emigrated to the U.S. in 1939, he strongly influenced several American painters with this technique, the most evident example being Jackson Pollack. After his time in America, he returned to Europe and while living in Spain during the mid-1930s, he became enraptured with Spanish themes—bullfights, matadors and Spanish mythology. Masson finally settled down in France (Aix-en-Provence), where he took up a late interest in impressionistic landscape, but he ultimately came to a place where he painted nearly exclusively abstract images. Masson dedicated his life as an artist to encouraging the non-rational purpose in art, to the direct transference of subconscious thought and to the primal forces of conflicts that he experienced in the trenches of World War One. Masson sought to convey in his work a deeper reality of man’s behavior, his own complex personal imagery, and his belief that painting is not a matter of developing style but a part of life itself.
no title
By André Masson
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 95/99 57.00 cm. x 75.50 cm. 22.44 in. x 29.72 in. (paper) 49.00 cm. x 61.00 cm. 19.29 in. x 24.02 in. (image) LCD4233
Lithograph
French Abstract Surrealist Color Lithograph Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
Published Benincasa Carmine. Edizioni SEAT, Torino, Italy. Offset directly from the original plates. Limited edition. This is not hand signed or numbered. Signature in the printing p...
Lithograph, Offset
Sonnets by Louise Labé
By André Masson
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1972 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 74/150 Publisher : André Sauret (Monte-Carlo) Printer : Mourlot (Paris) 65.00 cm. x 50.00 cm. 25.59 in. x 19.69 in. ...
Lithograph
$7,300
"La Naissance D'Eve, " Surreal Lithograph from "Je Reve" signed by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Naissance D'Eve" is an original color lithograph from the "Je Reve (I Dream)" portfolio by Andre Masson. The artist signed the piece lower right in pencil and wrote the edition n...
Lithograph
Le 2 Mai 1945, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896–1987) Date: 1945 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition, Epreuve d'artiste Image Size: 11.25 x 14.5 inches Size: 14 x 16.25 in. (35.56 x 41.28 cm)
Lithograph
La femme au poisson, Surrealist Etching by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - La femme au poisson, Year: 1972, Medium: Etching, signed in pencil, Image Size: 6 x 5.5 inches, Size: 12.5 x 11 in. (31.75 x 27.94 cm), Descript...
Etching
$650
French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the suite by Jean Paul Sartre and Andre Masson, Limited edition of 175. published by Fernand Mourlot, 1961. The portfolio is numbered #29/175 and hand signed by Andre Ma...
Lithograph
L'Espagne assassinée from Solidarité, Surrealist Etching by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - L'Espagne assassinee from Solidarite, Year: 1938, Medium: Etching on wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 1/15, Image Size: 9.25 ...
Etching
Dragon vert, Surrealist Etching by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Dragon vert, Medium: Etching and aquatint, signed and numbered in pecnil, Edition: 14/50, Image Size: 10.5 x 8 inches, Size: 16.25 x 13 in. (41....
Etching, Aquatint
$650
French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the suite by Jean Paul Sartre and Andre Masson, Limited edition of 175. published by Fernand Mourlot, 1961. The portfolio is numbered #29/175 and hand signed by Andre Ma...
Lithograph
$650
French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the suite by Jean Paul Sartre and Andre Masson, Limited edition of 175. published by Fernand Mourlot, 1961. The portfolio is numbered #29/175 and hand signed by Andre Ma...
Lithograph
The metamorphosis of the woman
By André Masson
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1970 75.00 cm. x 54.00 cm. 29.53 in. x 21.26 in. (paper) 67.00 cm. x 49.00 cm. 26.38 in. x 19.29 in. (image) Annoted "EA" Handsigned by the artist in pencil Ref : LCD3077
Lithograph
$650
French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the suite by Jean Paul Sartre and Andre Masson, Limited edition of 175. published by Fernand Mourlot, 1961. The portfolio is numbered #29/175 and hand signed by Andre Ma...
Lithograph
$650
French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the suite by Jean Paul Sartre and Andre Masson, Limited edition of 175. published by Fernand Mourlot, 1961. The portfolio is numbered #29/175 and hand signed by Andre Ma...
Lithograph
Atalante by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Andre Masson Medium: Lithographic Poster before lettering, 1967 Dimensions: 29.5 x 22.75 in, 74.93 x 57.79 cm Classic Poster Paper - Excellent ...
Lithograph
$650
French Abstract Surrealist Lithograph Andre Masson Mourlot Paris Limited Edition
By André Masson
Located in Surfside, FL
This is from the suite by Jean Paul Sartre and Andre Masson, Limited edition of 175. published by Fernand Mourlot, 1961. The portfolio is numbered #29/175 and hand signed by Andre Ma...
Lithograph
No title
By André Masson
Located in Paris, FR
Etching Handsigned by the artist in pencil and annoted EA Printer : Crommelynck 50.00 cm. x 66.00 cm. 19.69 in. x 25.98 in. (paper) 37.00 cm. x 44.00 cm. 14.57 in. x 17.32 in. (ima...
Etching
"Bacchanale from Je Reve (I Dream) Portfolio, " Original Color Lithograph
By André Masson
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bacchanale" is an original color lithograph by Andre Masson. This piece is from the Je Reve (I Dream) portfolio and is edition number H.C. XVV/XVV. Masson signed the piece in pencil...
Lithograph
$7,300
"La Naissance D'Eve" from "Je Reve, " Color Lithograph signed by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Naissance D'Eve" is an original color lithograph by Andre Masson. This piece, depicting Adam and Eve, is from Masson's "Je Reve (I Dream)" portfolio, and is signed in pencil lowe...
Lithograph
"Satan" from "Je Reve" portfolio, Surrealist Lithograph, Signed
By André Masson
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Satan" is an original color lithograph by Andre Masson. This piece is from the "Je Reve" (I Dream) portfolio of 1975. The edition number, written lower left, is H.C. XXV/XXV. The ar...
Lithograph, Paper
$5,500
André Masson "La jambe déguisée" 1975 Signed Etching w/ Aquatint, Edition of 50
By André Masson
Located in Miami, FL
ANDRÉ MASSON – "LA JAMBE DÉGUISÉE" ⚜ Etching with Aquatint ⚜ Hand Signed Lower Right ⚜ Numbered 23/50 ⚜ Conservation Frame SURREAL FIGURATION AND AUTOMATIC LINE Created in 1975, La ...
Etching, Aquatint
"Le Philosophe Au Papillon, " an Original Color Lithograph, Signed
By André Masson
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Philosophe Au Papillon", from Je Reve (I Dream) Portfolio, is an original color lithograph signed in pencil lower right by French Surrealist artist Andre Masson. This is H.C. XXV/XXV. It depicts a brightly colored man...
Lithograph
Amazones Etching Print, Limited Edition 50, Mid-20th Century, Signed
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Limited edition of 50 prints, numbered and hand signed. Excellent conditions.
Etching
Amours Legendaires Etching, Surrealist Style, Limited Edition of 30
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 30x25 cm. Limited edition of 30 prints, numbered and hand signed. Excellent conditions.
Etching
Figue Etching Print, Abstract Style, Mid-20th Century, Signed Edition
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 15x11 cm. Edition of 60 prints, numbered and hand signed. Excellent conditions.
Etching
Les Fermières Libertines Etching, Surrealist, Signed, 1960s Edition
By André Masson
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 50 prints. Perfect conditions. Image Dimensions : 20 x 32 cm
Etching
Venise en Fleurs, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Venise en Fleurs from Je Reve Portfolio, Year: 1975, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 93/125, Size: 26 i...
Lithograph
Mines de Rien, Surrealist Etching and Aquatint by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Mines de Rien, Year: 1957, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Rives, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 46/50, Image Size: 5.25 x 4.5 inche...
Etching, Aquatint
Place de Concorde, Impressionist Lithograph by André Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Place de Concorde, Year: 1962, Medium: Lithograph, unsigned, Image Size: 15 x 11.5 inches, Size: 15.25 x 11.75 in. (38.74 x 29.85 cm), Descrip...
Lithograph
Profil rose
By André Masson
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph. Signed and numbered 14/200 in pencil.
Color, Lithograph
Chrysalides, Surrealist Etching by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Chrysalides, Year: Circa 1947, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 10 x 14 inches, S...
Etching, Aquatint
From Miroir du Poète Album
By André Masson
Located in New York, NY
Color aquatint on black backround from Miroir du Poete, published by Louis Broder, Paris, 1960. II/VI of 6 on japon of a total edition of 66. Signed and numbered in pencil by the art...
Aquatint
La Sibylle et les étoiles
By André Masson
Located in OPOLE, PL
André Masson (1896 - 1987) - La Sibylle et les étoiles Lithograph from 1976. Edition 91/100. Dimensions of work: 50 x 66 cm. Hand signed. The work is in Excellent condition.
Lithograph
André Masson - Original Lithograph
By André Masson
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Maurice Estève - Composition Original Lithograph 1964 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Revue XXe Siècle Cahiers d'art published under the direction of G. di San Lazzaro. French painter born...
Lithograph
André Masson - Original Lithograph
By André Masson
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Masson - Composition Original Lithograph 1969 Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm Revue XXe Siècle Cahiers d'art published under the direction of G. di San Laz...
Lithograph
$2,396Sale Price|20% Off
Andre Masson, The Eiffel Tower in a Gray Sky, from Views of Paris, 1963
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Masson (1896–1987), titled La Tour Eiffel au ciel gris (The Eiffel Tower in a Gray Sky), from Regards Sur Paris (Views of Paris), originates from t...
Lithograph
$2,396Sale Price|20% Off
Andre Masson, Place de la Concorde…, from Views of Paris, 1963
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Masson (1896–1987), titled Place de la Concorde et L'Arc de Triomphe (Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe), from Regards Sur Paris (Views ...
Lithograph
"Le Torrent" original lithograph
By André Masson
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1952 for the art revue Verve (Volume 7, Number 27-28) and published in Paris by Teriade. Sheet size: 14 x 21 inches (353 x 535 mm). There is a...
Lithograph
$2,396Sale Price|20% Off
Andre Masson, Paris at Night The Seine…, from Views of Paris, 1963
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Masson (1896–1987), titled Paris la nuit La Seine, Notre Dame de Paris (Paris at Night The Seine, Notre Dame of Paris), from Regards Sur Paris (Vie...
Lithograph
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Andre Masson, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Masson (1896–1987), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the 1962 album Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, essais philosophiques, Le mythe d...
Lithograph
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Andre Masson, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Masson (1896–1987), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the 1962 album Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, essais philosophiques, Le mythe d...
Lithograph
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Andre Masson, The Hawk Above the Torrent, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1953
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Masson (1896–1987), titled L’epervier au dessus du torrent (The Hawk Above the Torrent), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. VII, No. ...
Lithograph
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Andre Masson, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Masson (1896–1987), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the 1962 album Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, essais philosophiques, Le mythe d...
Lithograph
Le mort et le vif, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896–1987) Date: 1945 Lithograph on Pur Fil Marais, signed and numbered in pencil Edition, 30 Image Size: 12.5 x 8.5 inches Size: 19.75 x 13 in. (50.17 x 33.02 ...
Lithograph
Assemblage de femmes, Surrealist Etching by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Assemblage de femmes, Year: 1966, Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 24/50, Image Size: 6.75 x 7.75 inches, S...
Etching, Aquatint
Andre Masson 80 Dessins 1922-1960 Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
By André Masson
Located in Paonia, CO
Andre Masson 80 Dessins 1922-1960 Galerie Louise leiris 47 rue de Monceau Paris VIII 26 Octobre -26 Novembre 1960 published by Mourlot. Ori...
Lithograph
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Andre Masson, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Masson (1896–1987), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the 1962 album Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, essais philosophiques, Le mythe d...
Lithograph
Lioisean Amoureux, Surrealist Etching by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896–1987) Date: 1957 Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition, 2/11 Image Size: 8 x 6.75 inches Size: 9.5 x 8 in. (24.13 x 20.32 cm) From the collection...
Etching
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Andre Masson, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Masson (1896–1987), titled Sans titre (Untitled), originates from the 1962 album Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, essais philosophiques, Le mythe d...
Lithograph
$200Sale Price|20% Off
Le Septieme Chant II Etching, Abstract Style, Deluxe Edition, 1974
By André Masson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This rare, deluxe edition of XXe Siècle, published by the Société Internationale d'Art XXe Siècle in 1974, is one of only 75 copies to feature an exclusive additional suite on Japon ...
Etching
$1,000Sale Price|20% Off
André Masson, "Figures in Landscape, " hand signed lithograph in colors
By André Masson
Located in Chatsworth, CA
André Masson Figures in Landscape Lithograph in colors on Arches paper Hand signed in pencil, numbered 51/150
Lithograph
Dancing under the Stars - Original lithograph, Signed
By André Masson
Located in Paris, IDF
Andre MASSON Dancing under the Stars, 1973 Original lithograph Signed with the stamp of the artist Numbered / 100 On vellum 58 x 38 cm (c. 23 x 15 in) Very good condition, small de...
Lithograph
"The Sun" original lithograph
By André Masson
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1938 and published in Paris by Teriade for the art revue Verve (volume 1, number 2). Andre Masson was invited to contribute an original compos...
Lithograph
Verona, Venice - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By André Masson
Located in Paris, IDF
André Masson Verona, Venice Original lithograph Handsigned in pencil with his monogram On Chinese paper applied on vellum, 52,5 x 37,5 cm (c. 20,6 x 14,7 inch) Excellent condition
Lithograph
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Andre Masson, The Moon, from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, 1938
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Andre Masson (1896–1987), titled La Lune (The Moon), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. I, No. 2, originates from the 1938 issue published ...
Lithograph
Démone, Abstract Etching and Aquatint by André Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Démone, Year: 1957, Medium: Etching and Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 15/30, Image Size: 6 x 4.5 inches, Size: 15 x 11 in...
Etching, Aquatint
Orifice, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Orifice, Portfolio: Dessins Erotiques, Year: 1971, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 23/125, Image Size: ...
Lithograph
OPriginal lithograph by André Masson in 1962 for the XVIII Salon de Mai
By André Masson
Located in PARIS, FR
This striking original lithograph, created by André Masson in 1962 for the XVIIIe Salon de Mai, stands as a bold testament to the Surrealist master's lyrical abstraction and dreamlik...
Paper, Lithograph
$2,396Sale Price|20% Off
Composition, Feuilles éparses, André Masson
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching on vélin cuve de Rives paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Feuilles éparses, 1965. Published and printed by Louis B...
Etching
Dance, Surrealist Lithograph by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - Dance, Year: 1964, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 23/75, Image Size: 25 x 18 inches, Size: 29.75 x 22...
Lithograph