Original André Masson Poster Galerie Louise Leiris, 1954 - Mourlot

This is an original lithographic poster created in 1954 for an exhibition by André Masson at the Galerie Louise Leiris in Paris — one of the most prestigious and historically significant galleries of the 20th century, founded by the dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and named after his sister-in-law, who ran the gallery alongside him. The Galerie Leiris was the primary home of Picasso, Léger, Juan Gris, and Masson himself, making it one of the defining institutions of the Parisian avant-garde.

André Masson (1896–1987) was one of the founding figures of Surrealism — a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose automatic drawing technique, developed in the 1920s alongside André Breton and Joan Miró, was among the most radical artistic gestures of the interwar period. His work, rooted in mythology, violence, eroticism, and the unconscious, exercised a profound influence on the American Abstract Expressionists — particularly Jackson Pollock, who encountered Masson's work during his New York exile in the 1940s.

Printed by the Ateliers Mourlot, this poster brings together three of the defining names of postwar Parisian artistic life — Masson, Leiris, and Mourlot — in a single sheet of paper.

A rare and historically charged piece for the collector of Surrealism, the School of Paris, and the golden age of the Parisian gallery poster.