André Masson

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1896 - 1987

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André Masson, in full André-Aimé-René Masson (January 4, 1896, Balagny, Oise, France—died October 28, 1987, Paris) was a French Surrealist painter and graphic artist.
Masson studied painting in Brussels and then in Paris. He fought in World War I and was severely wounded. After joining the Surrealist group in the mid-1920, Masson became the foremost practitioner of automatic writing, which, when applied to drawing, was a form of spontaneous composition intended to express images emerging directly from the unconscious. Masson’s paintings and drawings from the late 1920s and the ’30s are suggestive renderings of scenes of violence, eroticism, and physical metamorphosis. A natural draftsman, he used sinuous, expressive lines that border on the totally abstract. Masson lived in Spain from 1934 to 1936 and in the United States during World War II. His work has been shown on retrospective exhibitions in Basel, Switzerland (1950) and New York City (1976).

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