André Masson
In the Tower of Sleep
1937
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André Masson
In the Tower of Sleep
1937
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Unframed: 32 × 39 1/2 in. (81.3 × 100.3 cm.)
Framed: 35 1/4 × 42 3/4 × 2 5/16 in. (89.5 × 108.6 × 5.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.329
Publication References
The Baltimore Museum of Art News, “Catalogue of the Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture,” March, 1950, cat. 69, p. 18.
Susan Helen Adler, "Saidie May Pioneer of Early 20th Century Collecting", United States: Stonehouse Design, 2008, p. 125.
Cathrin Langanke, "David Smith Medals For Dishonor (1936-40) Ein Ikonografisher Vergleich," Karlsruhe: Scientific Publishing, 2013, p. 202, ill. no. 23.
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.
Machnicka, Zofia and Pawel Polit (editors). Witkacy: Seismograph of the Acceleration Age. Warsaw: National Museum of Poland, 2022. ill. p. 229.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest 1951; The Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan, 1939-1951; Saidie A. May by purchse, 1939; from Kahnweiler, Galerie Simon, Paris
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