Fernando ARRABAL suggested a painting idea to René Magritte.
« Dear Magritte, Anger gives children wit. I suggest a painting. You could call it " The Chariot of the Virgin " or " Civilized Dollar ."
3.500€
« Dear Magritte, Anger gives children wit. I suggest a painting. You could call it " The Chariot of the Virgin " or " Civilized Dollar ."
3.500€
Fernando ARRABAL (1932-).
Autographed letter signed to René Magritte.
One page in quarto on paper with frayed edges. Paris. December 3, 1964.
Letterhead of the Panic Studies Center.
"Anger gives children wit."
A very beautiful illustrated letter to his friend René Magritte suggesting an idea for a painting.
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“Dear Magritte, Anger gives children wit. I suggest a painting. You could call it ‘ The Chariot of the Virgin ’ or ‘ Civilized Dollar ’.”
[Arrabal here draws, in black felt-tip pen and grease pencils, an "enormous trunk" resting in the center of a mirror]
( If idleness is the mother of ideology, pleasure is the father of glory .) The Chariot of the Virgin is a sacred thing: Indians ritually commit suicide by having themselves crushed under its wheels. Kisses. F. Arrabal.
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Panic Movement, founded in 1962 by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Roland Topor, aimed – according to Arrabal – to "distinguish itself from surrealism and reject all hierarchy, direction or constraint, claiming all morals"