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André Masson

The Donkey and the Flower

1940

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André Masson

The Donkey and the Flower

1940

Physical Qualities Pen and black ink, Sheet: 641 x 492 mm. (25 1/4 x 19 3/8 in.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number 1950.12.433
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore; purchased from Buchholz Gallery, NY, 1941
Vancouver Art Museum, "Surrealism: The Colour of my Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art," May 28 - September 25, 2011.

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

BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August 1995.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., "Assignment Rescue: The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee," 24 June - December 1993.

BMA, "BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings," 27 February - 29 April, 1990.

Lerner-Heller Gallery, NY, "André Masson: Second Surrealist Period 1937-43," 22 April - 24 May 1975, cat. no. 17.

BMA, "Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Andre Masson," October 31 – November 22, 1941.
BMA "Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings in the Cone Collection," rev. ed. 1967, cat. no. 186.
Brenda Richardson, "Dr Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, p. 193.

Inscribed: lower right in black ink: "andré masson. 1941"

Artist

André Masson

1895–1986

French, 1896-1987
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