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92 - MAGRITTE, René (1898–1967).
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MAGRITTE, René (1898–1967). Autograph letter signed “René Magritte” with a DRAWING, late 1959, to his friend André BOSMANS; 2 pages, in-8. He finds the text sent by Bosmans very beautiful, despite a few indulgences... “Not that I wish for an unnecessary concern with efficiency stemming from grueling labor, but rather a thought that is not subject to the pleasure of forming words on paper and that claims for those words a power corresponding to that of writing them. (The pleasure of painting for its own sake does not imply that such painting must give pleasure; painting a rose with love can truly satisfy only the one who devotes himself to this activity).” And he quotes the offending lines, advising Bosmans to clarify his thoughts by writing “in prose.” Then he SKETCHES his latest idea for a painting: “A dress that implores”... Letters to André Bosmans 1958–1967 (Seghers, Isy Brachot, 1990), p. 97.
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