André Masson, Ibdes in Aragon 1935
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Masson made a series of paintings of Spanish landscapes from 1934 to 1936, when he was living in Catalonia, including this one of Ibdes, a village in Aragon. ‘In these completely recognisable landscapes there is always an element of fantasy, either in the sky, or on the ground, or underground’, he wrote. Here, Surrealist double-images are provided by the cocks woven into the landscape and the crocodile formed by the rocks in the background.
July 2007
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