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Monday, 20 June 2022, 06:00 pm

André Masson, Danseuses - Les Présages (Ballet Dancers - Les Présages)

Lot 16

André Masson, 1896-1987 (FR)

Danseuses - Les Présages (Ballet Dancers - Les Présages), 1933

Pastel on paper.
H 440 mm W 630 mm.

Signed lower left: André Masson. Verso inscribed: 1933, Danseuses, Les Présages.

CHF4'000 / 6'000
EUR4'000 / 6'000
USD4'200 / 6'300

Hammer Price: CHF 2'800

Provenance:
Collection Jean-Louis Roy, Geneva;
Swiss Private Collection.

Annotation:

André Masson produced the costumes and sets for the ballet «Les Présages» choreographed by Léonide Massine. The premiere was performed on 13 April 1933 in Monte Carlo to music of Tchaikovsky's Symphonie No. 5.