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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)

Date1924

DimensionsBook: 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).

MediumOriginal prints: 4 etchings in sepia, incl. front wrapper. Text: letterpress in black with red. Paper: Arches cream laid, watermarked.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.721

Not on View

Label TextAndré 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.Published Referencescf. Wheeler, Monroe, Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators, New York, 1946, p. 107

cf. Castleman, Riva, A Century of Artists Books, New York, 1994, p. 178

cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 51.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Between the Wars, Sept. 5-Dec.31 2008.