613 - André Masson, Animal Futurism. 1910s–1920s. Pastels and charcoal on paper mounted on canvas. 287x212 mm. Signed in pencil lower right and titled lower right. The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity based on a photograph by Carmine Benincasa. Provenance: The artist’s studio; Cleto Polcina Collection; Tiziano Art Gallery; private collection.

André Masson, Animal Futurism. 1910s–1920s. Pastels and charcoal on paper mounted on canvas. 287x212 mm. Signed in pencil lower right and titled lower right. The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity based on a photograph by Carmine Benincasa. Provenance: The artist’s studio; Cleto Polcina Collection; Tiziano Art Gallery; private collection. The artist never adhered to Futurism but, like others—including Marcel Duchamp with *Nude Descending a Staircase*—he conducted studies on movement, including this one. The study of physical movement, in turn, evolved into a study of inner dynamism, the human psyche, and the automatic processes of the unconscious and the irrational. In 1924, he signed the Surrealist Manifesto. (1) In a gilded frame with some missing parts: 32.5 x 25 cm. The paper is mounted on canvas and shows minimal signs of aging.