Untitled
(1920s-1930s)
- Medium
- graphite and red and light blue pencil on lined notebook paper
- Measurements
- 17.7 × 21.5 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- France
- Accession Number
- 2014.94
- Department
- International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Diego Masson, 2014
© André Masson/ADAGP, Paris. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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André Masson was a French painter, printmaker, sculptor and stage-set designer. While Masson’s work played an important role in the development of both Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, his independence, iconoclasm and abrupt stylistic transitions make it difficult to classify his style. This drawing is a design for an abstract sculpture. Masson’s use of red pencil could be related to the choice of medium for the proposed sculpture, which he notes as terracotta in the top right corner of the sheet. As was characteristic of Surrealist art from this period, the drawing has decidedly erotic overtones – its rounded anthropomorphic shapes recall two intertwined figures.
- Subjects (general)
- Abstract Art
- Subjects (specific)
- curved curves (geometric figures) distortion geometric abstraction linear forms shading
- Movements
- Cubism Modernism