André Masson, Atelier 17, and others

Improvisation

1945

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André Masson, Atelier 17, and others

Improvisation

Artist: André Masson
Printer: Atelier 17
Publisher: Buchholz Gallery
Publisher: Curt Valentin

Improvisation

1945

Physical Qualities Aquatint and etching; printed in black (intaglio), Sheet: 325 x 256 mm. (12 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.) Plate: 201 x 150 mm. (7 15/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund

Object Number 1952.79

The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift,1952; Blanche Adler Memorial Fund

Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "6/50"; lower right in graphite: "André Masson"

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Robert Macaire before his judges. Very well! Yes, gentlemen, I was rather unfortunate at the Assize Court... but misfortune is always respectable!... moreover, it’s true what has been said, I've a habit of subtracting money, it's easier to excuse me than someone else because it's harder for me to resist my weakness... as for the rest, I am accused of selling lead for gold? Twenty witnesses swear to it. Very well! I deny it forty times and since two denials are worth an avowal it's clear that you cannot find me guilty. (after this brilliant improvisation Robert Macaire is condemned with a maximum sentence).

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