Falstaff

Prints and Drawings

1940

André Masson
French, 1896–1987

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: André Masson
Title: Falstaff
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1940
Medium: Black Conté crayon on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in graphite: "André Masson / –1940–"; inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: "#1560-2"; upper left, in graphite: "H.K. Falstaf Fusain 1940"
Dimensions: 63 × 47.7 cm (24 13/16 × 18 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2012.86
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 211, cat. 158 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 211, cat. 158 (ill.).

Galerie Simon, Paris [inventory #13014]. Buchholz Gallery, New York [inventory #3097]. Sold by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., June, 1969; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.

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