René Magritte, surrealist : autograph postcard, initialled; New York, 10 December 1965, to his friend André Bosmans.

A$2,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Picture postcard, 90 x 140 mm, verso with manuscript message in red biro in the hand of Magritte, dated 10 December 1965 and with return address of Hotel Glastone [sic] Room 703, 114 E. 52 Street New York N.Y. , initialled at the foot R M ; addressed to his friend André Bormans in Liège, mailed from New York (postmark date 11 December 1965); recto with view of the New York skyline at sunset; fine condition. Chers amis. Après un voyage de 8 heures en aéroplane nous voilà à New York, fatigués et contents tout de même. Nous n aurons pas le temps de nous ennuyer les invitations tombent à tours de bras et il est question de passer quelques jours au Texas ! Un rapport oral vous sera donné à Bruxelles bientôt, j espère. Amicalement. RM . [Dear friends. After an 8-hour plane trip here we are in New York, tired but happy all the same. We won t have time to get bored, there is a deluge of invitations and there is talk of spending a few days in Texas! An oral report will be given to you in Brussels soon, I hope. Sincerely. R M] In December 1965, Magritte travelled to the United States for the first time, on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The poet André Bosmans (1922-2014) was editor-in-chief of the surrealist journal Rhétorique .

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