Gaston CHAISSAC (1910-1964). L.A.S., [circa 1950?], to André - Lot 8

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Gaston CHAISSAC (1910-1964). L.A.S., [circa 1950?], to André - Lot 8
Gaston CHAISSAC (1910-1964). L.A.S., [circa 1950?], to André Bloc; 2 pages small in-4 on a squared-off school notebook sheet. Very beautiful letter about his painting. "I think about your cardboard and that it is quite possible that what I painted on it is too undignified and I must hesitate to deliver it to you like this but there is something to do to fix it: it is that I paint on the other side with gouache something, something in prints of peelings, peels and breaks because I do not paint like that anymore. [My biggest mural would probably please Dubuffet but my wife doesn't like it either, she thinks it's too rough and not carefully enough executed. This year I have painted a small painting which is quite sober in color and whose background is in stretched paint. My paintings of broken glass, pottery and dishware prints are close to Picasso's work while the one of peelings prints is close to Dubuffet's work. My best gouache of both squash prints and a full-length portrait is done on the back of an oil painting I had done from a drawing by Maurice Charriau, it is a portrait and I hear it looks like a Bocain. Perhaps you read in Samedi-soir that I paint with prints of orange peels. This is very untrue and I don't have oranges or even orange peels and who knows if they didn't write these lies to let you believe that I am covered with a mountain of oranges to protect me from frost. Maybe one day I will paint pictures representing both sugar beet peel prints and full-length portraits"...
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