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« There is nothing that can be said about these tapa… save that they exceed all normal bounds. They present the signs of a writing so subtle, so spiritual, so abstract that the mind suffers a shock that goes beyond our senses’ reach and is finally teased into meditations that wiser heads describe as maladive.
Perhaps there is nothing in it…
In these lines sustained by strange colors, there is a metaphysical sense that may open new casements for us…
Let us not hesitate to rest our elbows there.
The day will come – very soon, perhaps it is already here – when in some decorators’ studios, there will be sensitive Frenchmen who can interpret images of such beauty and take them as grafts for a new European garden. » source: Portier & Poncetton, 1931
Provenance
Collection J.H. Moesman, Utrecht, collected before 1931 and subsequently the painter P. van Drumpt, Amsterdam
Publication(s)
Steen, John, met bijdragen van F. Keers, Moesman. Monografie, catalogus van schilderijen en objecten, Zwolle 1998: p 25 and 50.Renders, Hans, Vereidelde dromen: een surrealistisch avontuur tussen De Stijl en Cobra, Enschedé 1989: p 121.
Moesman, J.H., Van fouten tot misvattingen. In 1985 opgemerkt door het ‘sujet d’étude’ J.H. Moesman, jong Holland no. 3 (1987): p 46.
Thieme, Michel, Writing so subtle…, HALI Magazine, Issue 175 – Spring 2013: p 82 – 89
Exhibition(s)