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Walter Swennen (born 1946) Crétin, 2011 Oil and wax on canvas Titled on the bottom center Initialed and dated on the reverse 50 x 60 cm Provenance: A.M. collection, Paris Note: "La vérité est dans les mots. Il a été dit: "bête comme un peintre". Bêtise, c'est le nom du réel avec quoi la pensée se dispute. La peinture a affaire au réel. Je m'occupe, dond des bêtises." (“Truth is in words. ‘Stupid like a painter’, it has been said. Stupidity, that is the name of the reality thought argues with. I am concerned, therefore, with stupidities.”) Walter Swennen
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Walter Swennen (born 1946) Crétin, 2011 Oil and wax on canvas Titled on the bottom center Initialed and dated on the reverse 50 x 60 cm Provenance: A.M. collection, Paris Note: "La vérité est dans les mots. Il a été dit: "bête comme un peintre". Bêtise, c'est le nom du réel avec quoi la pensée se dispute. La peinture a affaire au réel. Je m'occupe, dond des bêtises." (“Truth is in words. ‘Stupid like a painter’, it has been said. Stupidity, that is the name of the reality thought argues with. I am concerned, therefore, with stupidities.”) Walter Swennen
