Highlights

Leonardo da Vinci et Isabella d’Este

1942
André Masson

Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left, titled and dated on the reverse
100 x 127 cm

EXHIBITIONS:
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Recent Acquisitions: European and American Paintings, 1943
Toronto, Art Gallery, Canadian National Exhibition, 22 August – 6 Sept. 1952
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Reality and Fantasy 1900-1954, 23 May – 2 July 1954, no. 106 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Surrealism, Feb. – March 1964
Berlin, Akademie der Kunste, 3 – 24 May; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1st June – 19 July 1964, André Masson, no. 31
Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, André Masson, March – May 1965, no. 40
Santa Barbara, University of California, Surrealism, a State of Mind, 1966
New York, The Saidenberg Gallery, André Masson, Major Beginnings, 1966, no. 16
Marseille, Musée Cantini, André Masson, July – Sept. 1968, no. 26, ill.
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, André Masson, 5 March – 2 May 1977, no. 88, ill.
Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Surrealism from the collection of The MoMA, New York, 15 June – 30 July. 1978, no. 43
Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, La Planète affolée: surréalisme, dispersion et influences, 1938-1947, 12 April – 30 June 1986
Basel, Art 43 Basel, Applicat-Prazan, 14 – 17 June 2012; Paris, Applicat-Prazan Rive droite, 13 Sept. – 27 Oct. 2012; André Masson, cat., ill. full page col. p. 39, ill. double p. col. (détail) full page 56-57

LITERATURE:
Jean-Paul Clébert, Mythologie d’André Masson, Genève 1971, no. 139, ill.
William Rubin et Carolyn Lanchner, André Masson, 1976, ill. p. 66
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, 1929-1967, New York, 1977, ill. p. 177
Dawn Ades, André Masson, Collection Les grands maîtres de l’art contemporain, Albin Michel, Paris 1994, no. 81, ill. full page col.
This work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of the Artist’s works, in the volume currently being prepared by Madame Guite Masson