UBAC, Raoul Lettre aut. s. Dieudonne 19/10/1975 4 pp. on 2 ff., 13.5 x 21 cm. Interesting letter in which the Belgian artist (1910-1985) systematically answers various questions from an unidentified researcher. He successively evokes the Cattiaux...

UBAC, Raoul Lettre aut. s. Dieudonne 19/10/1975 4 pp. on 2 ff., 13.5 x 21 cm. Interesting letter in which the Belgian artist (1910-1985) systematically answers various questions from an unidentified researcher. He successively evokes the Cattiaux exhibition of 1935 where he exhibited under the pseudonym "Raoul Michelet", - his engravings with burin whose plates were lost during the war, "as well as most of the prints", - his work as an engraver and photographer whose techniques he never mixed, - the poet Jean Gacon, - Buñuel's film "L'âge d'or", - his work for a few months on the radio after the war, - his time at the Cologne School of Fine Arts where he also attended the A-Z group "avant-garde painting for the time", - the illustrations for a book. Answer VI concerns the surrealist group: "[...] there was no political activism - on the other hand, there were a lot of political discussions leading to "standpoints" which resulted in more or less striking manifestos - but without any practical significance". Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.