The Metaphysical Wall

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), Baltimore (the USA).

Briefly about the painting:

The artist’s idea can be understood from the title of the painting – the understanding of life and death at the moment of the shift from one state to the other. The common colorful background of the painting unites the worlds. The tall figures of a man and a woman stand in front of the plane and see their reflection in it. The crystal and ovoid shapes at the feet of the characters contain the same creatures in their different state. Masson created this work in the period when Germany invaded France. The artist, his wife, Jewish woman Rosa, and their children fled to America, and at the end of the war, returning to Marseille, A. Masson sent this painting as a gift to Saidie May.