1998.281: Love of the Plants

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1998.281

People

André Masson, French (Balagne 1896 - 1987 Paris)

Title

Love of the Plants

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1939

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/312237

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on cream wove paper

Dimensions

62.7 x 44 cm (24 11/16 x 17 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r., black ink: andre masson

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1946, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection

Copyright

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Accession Year

1998

Object Number

1998.281

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• André Masson, Anatomy of My Universe, C. Valentin (New York, NY, 1943), pl. 9
• Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 165, fig. 149, pp. 373, 380

Exhibition History

• 20th Century Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 04/16/1947 - 05/18/1947
• The Body Politic: Surrealism on Both Sides of the Atlantic 1924 - 1947, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1995 - 01/07/1996
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

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