MAGRITTE REN

MAGRITTE REN
MAGRITTE RENÉ: (1898-1967) Belgian Surrealist Painter. An excellent drawing by Magritte with several annotations in his hand, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. [1961]. The drawing corresponds to his drafts and sketches for is well-known painting `La Cascade´ (''The Waterfall''), 1961. Magritte has drawn in bold dark pencil three drawings patterns showing a framed painting inside a painting, with foliage around, annotated beneath the main drawing in his hand `La Cascade´, and to the upper right corner also in his hand `4 arbres´ (''4 trees''). The painting is considered a painting inside the painting ''Le Tableau dans le Tableau''. Magritte, referring to his way of working, and his drafts before painting, said `I start with several paintings and work on drafts sketches during a period of time which I call ''research'', and the work which comes after consists of completion´. Referring to his work La Cascade (1961) Magritte said `..about my painting La Cascade, I have been requested to write few lines related to it which will be edited for the catalogue. I think that the thought can be seen in the forest at the same time than also far from the forest… But such differences on space are united here and send you back to the thought rather than to a measurement matter. The difference of nature becomes this way a spiritual possibility, a poetic power rather than an exercise of the geometric mind.´ Magritte wrote on 22nd October 1963 to his friend André Bosmans referring to his painting La Cascade, `…If I have to talk about this panting… it questions the capable thought of uniting the interior forest and the same distant forest. Such kind of contraction also happens with the night and day in L´Empire des Lumieres (''The Dominion of Lights'') and some other paintings.