Mythologies

Mythologies is an original Rare Book engraved by André Masson  (Balagny, Oise, 1896 - Paris, 1987) in 1946.

Original Edition.

Published by Editions de la Revue Fontaine, Paris.

Format: in 4°. The dimensions and the weight are indicative.

800 numbered copies.

The book includes 91 pages with 37 full page Drawings.

Good conditions.  

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The book has been written by André-Aimé-René Masson (Balagny, Oise, 1896 - Paris, 1987). He was a noted French Surrealist painter and graphic artist. Masson's childhood encouraged unconventional thought. In particular, his mother was a French teacher who promoted unusual texts that would later become important to the Surrealists and were considered scandalous at the time. While his father was more conservative in his beliefs, he did not interfere with Masson's artistic ambitions. Masson studied painting in Brussels and then in Paris. He fought in World War I and was severely wounded. He joined the emergent Surrealist group in the mid-1920s after one of his paintings had attracted the attention of the movement’s leader, André Breton. Masson soon became the foremost practitioner of automatic writing, which, when applied to drawing, was a form of spontaneous composition intended to express impulses and images arising directly from the unconscious. Masson’s paintings and drawings from the late 1920s and the ’30s are turbulent, suggestive renderings of scenes of violence, eroticism, and physical metamorphosis. A natural draftsman, he used sinuous, expressive lines to delineate biomorphic forms that border on the totally abstract. Masson lived in Spain from 1934 to 1936 and in the United States during World War II. His work was the subject of major retrospective exhibitions in Basel, Switzerland (1950) and New York City (1976).