André Masson
Ophelia
1936
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André Masson
Ophelia
1936
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Unframed: 44 3/4 × 57 3/4 in. (113.7 × 146.7 cm.)
Framed: 47 × 59 × 3 3/8 in. (119.4 × 149.9 × 8.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.328
Publication References
The Baltimore Museum of Art News, “Catalogue of the Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture,” March, 1950, cat. 68, p. 18.
William Rubin & Carolyn Lanchner, "Andre Masson," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1976, ill. p. 144.
Karoline Hille, "Ein Traum Wird Farbe: Reconstruction des Hauptraums der Internazionalen Surrealismus-Austellung 1938 in Paris," in Reinhard Speiler and Barbara Auer editors, exh. cat., "Gegen Jede Vernunft: Surrealismus Paris-Prag" (Ludwigshaffen Am Rhein: Wilhelmhack Museum, 2009), 206-209.
David Lomas, "Philosophy in a Painting: André Masson's Ophelia (1937)" in Dawn Ades ed., "The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art," Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2011, pp. 83-95.
David Lomas and Dawn Ades, "Narcissus Reflected", Edinburgh: The Fruitmarket Gallery, 2011, p. 138.
Susan Helen Adler, "Saidie May Pioneer of Early 20th Century Collecting", United States: Stonehouse Design, 2008, p. 183.
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.
Subelytė, Gražina and Daniel Zamani (editors). Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity. Munich: Prestel, 2022. ill, pp. 176-77
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by bequest, 1951; Saidie A. May, by purchase 1938; from artist André Masson via Galerie Simon, Paris
Matisse, Picasso, and the School of Paris
Against all reason. Paris - Prague surrealism
The Color of My Dreams: Surrealism and Revolution in Art
Encounters with the 1930's
Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s
Surrealism and Magic: From Max Ernst to Leonora Carrington
Andre Masson. There is no finished world