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        "tombstone": "Paysage au serpent (Landscape with Snake), 1927. Andr\u00e9 Masson (French, 1896\u20131987). Oil on canvas; unframed: 65 x 46 cm (25 9/16 x 18 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 2016.55",
        "current_location": "225 German Expressionism & Surrealism",
        "title": "Paysage au serpent (Landscape with Snake)",
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        "measurements": "Unframed: 65 x 46 cm (25 9/16 x 18 1/8 in.)",
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                {
                    "id": 306886,
                    "title": "Recent Acquisitions",
                    "description": "<i>Recent Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-June 7, 2018).",
                    "opening_date": "2018-03-17T04:00:00"
                }
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                {
                    "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (03/17/2018-06/06/2018): \"Recent Acquisitions 2014-2017\"",
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                "description": "Private collection, Paris",
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        "did_you_know": "Although this type of painting was known as \"automatic,\" Masson acknowledged that the process was both subconscious and conscious.",
        "description": "Surrealists such as Andr\u00e9 Masson believed that reality could be grasped only by unlocking the secrets of the subconscious mind, where prior knowledge that influences emotions and actions is stored. His pioneering technique, known as automatic painting, emphasized spontaneity, thereby allowing subconscious thoughts to emerge during the creative process. Masson worked rapidly when painting <em>Landscape with Snake</em>, applying gestural brushstrokes over a tan background and gouging through wet paint with a pencil. While forms occasionally coalesce to suggest a snake, a bird, or water flowing through a forest, the true subject is the dynamic process of painting.",
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                "citation": "\"New in the Galleries.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 56, no. 6 (November/December 2016): Back cover.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: Back cover",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2016-06"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Robinson, William. \u201cAcquisition Highlights 2016: Modern Art.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 57, no. 2 (March/April 2017): 12.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 12; Mentioned: p. 7, 12",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2016-06"
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            {
                "citation": "Masson, Guite, Martin Masson, and Catherine Loewer. <em>Andre\u0301 Masson: catalogue raisonne\u0301 de l'oeuvre peint, 1918-1941.</em> Vaumarcus: ArtAcatos, 2010.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 371, no. 30",
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:03:26.148000"
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