Soleils bas
Artist: André Masson (French, 1896-1987)
Publisher: Éditions de la Galerie Simon (André Simon et cie.), Paris, 1924 (under the direction of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler)
Printer: etchings: l’Imprimerie Charlot Frères, [Paris?]; text: l’Imprimerie Leibovitz, Paris
Author: Georges Limbour (French, 1902-1970)
Date: 1924
Dimensions:
Book: H: 9 7/8 in. (251 mm); W: 7 7/8 in. (200 mm); Depth: 3/16 in. (4 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 9 1/2 in. (241 mm); Depth: 7 9/16 in. (192 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 4 etchings in sepia, incl. front wrapper.
Text: letterpress in black with red.
Paper: Arches cream laid, watermarked.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number: 1984.721
Label Text:André Masson made his illustrations for Georges Limbour's poems in the year that he joined the Surrealist movement. Masson was in the process of breaking from Cubism, repudiating its disengagement from political, social, and psychological life. He later recounted that he and his neighbor Joan Miró had declared, "Cubism must be broken. Miró said, 'I'll smash their guitar.' And I said, 'I will make their birds bleed' … This was a declaration of war." Masson's enigmatic and disquieting images seem drawn from the irrational narratives of dreams.
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