André Masson: le surréalisme révolutionnaire

On the occasion of the Surrealist centenary, the gallery has the pleasure to showcase a selection from its exhibition "André Masson: le Surréalisme révolutionnaire", which is part of the parcourse "Paris Surréaliste", a collaboration of the CPGA and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Discover works from 1923 to 1969, from paintings to pastels, works on paper and sculpture, showcasing the multiple sides of Masson's artistic production. Faced with such eclectism, André Breton himself had once exclaimed : "Rien de plus beau!".

An overview of the work of André Masson (1896-1987) and his contribution to the Surrealist revolution: that's the spirit behind this exhibition of around thirty works, which reveals the full range of the movement's founding member with André Breton. After his cubist beginnings, André Masson invented automatic drawing, which he later transcribed into painting and even sculpture. In 1927, he was the first to dare dripping, a gesture that would influence the beginnings of American abstract expressionism. From his ‘Massacres’ series of drawings (1932-1934), which summed up the violence of a century, to his explorations of Chinese pictograms in the 1950s.