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Wonderful handwritten essay in French, signed “René Magritte,” one page, 8 x 10, May 1967. A detailed statement on Magritte's understanding of art and his mission as an artist, evidently prepared for an article or book, in part (translated): “I conceive of painting as an art of juxtaposing colors in such a way that their appearance fades, and an image is allowed to appear in which familiar figures of the visible are united — in a poetic order — skies, people, trees, mountains, furniture, stars, solids, inscriptions, etc. The poetry of this image consists of symbolic meanings, old or new. The poetic image hides nothing: she only shows figures of the visible, since painting is an unsuitable medium for representing the invisible. The invisible, meaning that which light cannot reveal, has an inestimable value. But one would have to ignore this value, if one desired to make such things visible, for example: pleasure and pain, knowledge and ignorance, the voice and silence. One can try to understand non-traditional painting, but it is not necessary to understand it. Either way, one does not assume grave responsibility: it's just a case of the imaginary irrational. The poetic image was imagined in order to respond to the interest that we test naturally, she directly evokes the mystery that is the true irrational. One should take in poetic images whilst being careful not to reduce 'the known' that which is unknown, their reality being of the same 'genre' as the reality of the universe.” In fine condition, with faint show-through from old adhesive residue on the reverse. A wonderfully introspective essay from the Belgian master, who passed away at the age of 68 less than three months after writing this sage reflection.
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