MASSON, ANDRÉ
1896 Balagny-sur-Thérain - 1987 Paris

Title: Madame Potiphar (From: Louis Aragon. Les Amants Célèbres).
Date: 1973-79.
Technique: Colour etching on laid paper.
Mounting: Matted. Depiction Size: 41 x 30,5cm.
Sheet Size: 65,5 x 50cm.
Notation: Signed and numbered.
Publisher: Propyläen Verlag, Berlin (publisher).
Number: 69/70.
Frame/Pedestal: Mat (81 x 60cm).


Condition:
Slightly discoloured. Under the mat unevenly discoloured and mounted with tape. Mat mounted with double-sided tape; one corner is loose. Due to the manufacturing process minimally wavy. Otherwise in good condition.

The drafts were created in 1973-74. The series was printed and published in 1979.

Literature:
- Saphire, Lawrence/Cramer, Patrick: André Masson - The illustrated books, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva 1994, cat. rais. no. 114.