Minotaur

Prints and Drawings

1942

André Masson
French, 1896-1987

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: André Masson
Title: Minotaur
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1942
Medium: Pastel and charcoal with stumping on blue-gray laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower right, in graphite: "André Masson"; inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: "Minotaure/1942"
Dimensions: 63.9 × 48.3 cm (25 3/16 × 19 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
Reference Number: 1992.249
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

The Art Institute of Chicago, “An Irrational Act: Gifts of Surrealist Works on Paper from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro,” December 15, 1992-April 18, 1993, p. 7, fig. 5.

Given by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, Oak Park, Ill., to the Art Institute, 1992.

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