Fernando ARRABAL suggests an idea for a painting to René Magritte.

“Dear Magritte, Anger gives spirit to children. I suggest a painting. You could call it “ The Chariot of the Virgin ” or “ Civilized Dollar .”

3.500€

Fernando ARRABAL (1932-).

Autograph letter signed to René Magritte.

One page in-4° on paper with frayed edges. Paris. December 3, 1964.

Letterhead from the Center for Panic Studies.

“Anger gives spirit to children. »

Very beautiful illustrated letter to his friend René Magritte suggesting an idea for a painting.

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“Dear Magritte, Anger gives spirit to children. I suggest a painting. You could call it “ The Chariot of the Virgin ” or “ Civilized Dollar ”.

[Arrabal draws here, with 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 commit ritual suicide by being crushed under its wheels. Besos. F. Arrabal. »

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Panique actionist movement founded in 1962 by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Roland Topor aimed – according to Arrabal – to “stand out from surrealism and refuse any hierarchy, direction or constraint, claiming to embrace all morals”