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The Snake in the Galley (Le Serpent dans la Galere)

Date:

1945

Artist:

André Masson (French, 1896-1987)
written by Georges Duthuit (French, born 1891)
published by Transition Curt Valentin (American, born Germany, 1902-1954)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

André Masson

Title

The Snake in the Galley (Le Serpent dans la Galere)

Place

France (Artist's nationality)

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1945

Medium

Book with lithographs in black on ivory laid paper and one on ivory wove paper, loose

Dimensions

34 × 26 × 2 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 × 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg in memory of Bessie Kisloff Braude, Esq.

Reference Number

2014.496

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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