“Desire Causes the Current to Flow”: André Masson’s Innovations in Taste » André Masson, Portrait du poète Heinrich von Kleist, 1939. Oil on canvas, 21-5/8 x 15 inches © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy Blain Di Donna

André Masson, Portrait du poète Heinrich von Kleist, 1939. Oil on canvas, 21-5/8 x 15 inches © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy Blain Di Donna

André Masson, Portrait du poète Heinrich von Kleist, 1939. Oil on canvas, 21-5/8 x 15 inches © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy Blain Di Donna