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André Masson was born on January 4th, 1896 in Balagny-sur-Thérain in the Oise and died on October 28th, 1987 in Paris. In 1923 he met the first surrealists and joined The surrealist Revolution (before going away from it) with Antonin Artaud, Miro, Georges Limbour and Michel Leiris.He was also close to Georges Bataille, to Breton An...

André Masson was born on January 4th, 1896 in Balagny-sur-Thérain in the Oise and died on October 28th, 1987 in Paris.

In 1923 he met the first surrealists and joined The surrealist Revolution (before going away from it) with Antonin Artaud, Miro, Georges Limbour and Michel Leiris.

He was also close to Georges Bataille, to Breton André, to Roland Tual and to Max Jacob. André Masson's work is full of new developments as the twenty century.

His first works are printed by cubism as the famous Roland Tual's portrait of 1921-1922 or The Players of 1923.

Afterward till the end of the 20s ' and until the 40s ' his work is representative and testifies of the influence of the surrealists. Finally from the 40s ', 50 ' and 60 ' his work aims towards more abstraction.