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Untitled, From "Anatomy of My Universe"
Artist: André Masson (French, 1896-1987)
Author: André Masson (French, 1896-1987)
Date: 1943
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. (25.7 x 20.6 cm);
Image: 7 13/16 x 5 15/16 in. (19.7 x 15 cm)
Medium: Lithograph
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Object number: 1979.95B
Label Text:Following the fall of France, André Masson fled to the United States in 1941. In the face of worries about the fate of Europe, he turned to nature: “I began to work in the way I ambitiously call chthonic, belonging to subterranean forces … I didn’t abandon Surrealism but I gave it a new meaning.” In this 1942 soft-ground etching, he incorporated the imprints of leaves and fabrics, cryptic symbols, partly-effaced writing, a labyrinthine form, and a humanoid figure - mysterious signs of nature, myth, and human consciousness.
Not on view