Color lithograph, paper, 35x26 cm, signed on the plate ld.: Andre Masson
On the back, inscription: The sun / LITHOGRAPHIE PAR ANDRÉ MASSON
Lithograph printed in 1938 by Atelier Fernand Mourlot for the Verve publishing house in Paris, France.
André Masson - French painter and printmaker associated with the Cubists and Surrealists. His interest in the subconscious and led him to experiment with "automatic" drawing, resulting in pen works and later multi-layered works of pigments, glue and sand. His early works show an interest in Cubism.