André Masson and Rose Masson
Diagrams for “There Is No Finished World”
1941
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Pen and black ink over graphite, Sheet (each): 279 × 760 mm. (11 × 29 15/16 in.)
Framed: 31 1/4 × 41 1/4 × 2 in. (79.4 × 104.8 × 5.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1947.138
Consists of two diagrams, one with text in French on yellow wove paper, the other in English on paperboard (text translated by Rose Masson).
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Dada and Surrealism: A Selection," 1 March - 24 April, 1977.
BMA, "BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings," 27 February - 29 April, 1990.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Impressionism to Surrealism From the Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May and Blanche Adler, 2/8- 4/21/2002, no. 24a pp. 18.
BMA, "BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings," 27 February - 29 April, 1990.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Impressionism to Surrealism From the Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May and Blanche Adler, 2/8- 4/21/2002, no. 24a pp. 18.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
Inscribed: Separate label, in black and brown ink: "Rose et André Masson avec leurs veux les plus of --"
