MAGRITTE René (1898 - 1967)

L.A.S. "René Magritte", Brussels March 24, 1962, to his friend André
BOSMANS; 2 pages in-8 on his letterhead (under mount).
He prepares his articles for an issue of the review Rhétorique that
Bosmans. "I will not publish the text "of ideas" since you renounce it". This will improve the presentation: "there will be 3 reproductions: one of a painting by an Austrian painter [...] One of La Gravitation universelle, since Wergifosse talks about it - and finally one in color of La Cascade.
The text of Lecomte is very good. [...] To my text (A false idea...) I add: It can be added, among other things, that the "material" used by the painters - oil, water, glue, canvas, wood, paper, etc. - - is not the same as the "material" used by the artists. -
offers no more artistic interest than the same material in its pure state. The various ways of conceiving and considering works of art are almost always of an indecent misery and futility. Also are rare the conceptions and the considerations whose reason of being is not different from the reason of being of the world and the thought"...