MAGRITTE, René (1898–1967)., L.A.S. ‘René Magritte’ with a DRAWING

He finds the text sent by Bosmans very fine, despite a few instances of self-indulgence... ‘Not that I wish for an unnecessary preoccupation with efficiency arising from gruelling labour, but rather a way of thinking that is not subject to the pleasure of forming words on paper, and which claims for those words a power commensurate with that of writing them. (The pleasure of painting for its own sake does not imply that such a painting must give pleasure; painting a rose with love can truly satisfy only the person who devotes themselves to this activity).” And he quotes the verses in question, 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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