Michel Leiris — Andre Masson: Massacres Et Autres Dessins

Paris, Hermann, 1971. Cloth. A smart collection of the drawings of French artist Andre Masson, with commentary from Michel Leiris in the original French. French. Illustrated with ninety-one plates, six of which are folding. Collated complete. A collection of the drawings of Andre-Aime-Rene Masson, a French artist whose early works display an interest in cubism, though he later became associated with surrealism. He was one of the most enthusiastic employers of automatic drawing, making a number of automatic works in pen and ink. Including his renowned Massacres, a series of images depicting men killing women and occasionally boys, produced over a period of four years between 1930 and 1934. With commentary from Julien Michel Leiris, a French surrealist writer and ethnographer. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Sunning to the spine and extremities with the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Andre Masson. Fine/Very Good.