André MASSON (1896-1987) - Lot 26

André MASSON (1896-1987) 3 Typed letters signed with handwritten corrections (4 pages), 1947-1948. - Vouneuil-sous-Biard September 8, 1947: "Dear Leymarie, I always enjoy reading your letters. Thank you for your last good letter. I'm sorry we weren't able to do our little stained-glass tour together. You hit the nail on the head when you speak of Tintoretto: his genius has never ceased - never ceases - to haunt me. But like a poor traveler before a mountain! Rembrandt's washes, which you are so right to love, are precisely what I studied. I absolutely admire his painting, but he's a skinner... - Aix-en-Provence November 15, 1948: "(...) I think that, as we've already said, painting is dying of too many 'artistic' intentions. We'd reached the point where we were only making art with art. And with all that, we're no further than craftsmanship. The reproach of virtuosity, which is also made with unpleasant intent, makes me laugh. It proves that I'm going against the grain, because I find it resolutely idiotic, if not to be clumsy (which is a misfortune), then to feign gaucherie. Infantilism, false primitivism and the exoticism you so rightly emphasize, that's what we have to get rid of at all costs... "etc. Folds, stains and tears.