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Le Crabe de Terre (The Sand Crab)

Artist: André Masson (1896 - 1987)

Location: Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

Materials: etching and drypoint

Dimensions: 30 x 22 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £2,700 (Total: £5,400)

Vendor: Agnew's

Review number: 4396 (1997)

Provenance:
Private Collection

Description:
An image from his later Surrealist Period. Multi-layered work, very typical of this artist's practice. Shifting suggestion of both human face and female genitalia in the form of a crab.

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