Edouard GOERG SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTER, a bias towards ugliness Paris, 1934

  

Beautiful and long signed autograph letter, Paris, 1934. Beautiful and long signed autograph letter, dated November 12, 1934, in Paris. He thanks his correspondent and talks about his approach to painting, explaining in particular his position in terms of style to express human complexity in his paintings. I apologize for not having thanked you yet for the very good photo you reproduced of me in Beaux-Arts. I would have liked to have found the same favor in the eyes of Philippe Diolé but I have little hope of achieving it since he believed he saw a bias towards ugliness in paintings where I only wanted to avoid dullness and the overly sentimental in these days that we [live].

As soon as one wants to express the human complexity with the means that the painter has at his disposal, one cannot avoid a somewhat aggressive appearance: but our art dies of representing a being who could not live, whom one could not desire to see live as he would spew out pompous blandness and be ceremoniously sentimental. Dimensions: 20.8 x 27 cm.

Condition: See photos for more details. Number of pages: 2 pages. Édouard Goerg, born Édouard Joseph Goerg in Sydney on June 9, 1893 and died in Callian on April 13, 1969, was a French expressionist painter, engraver, and illustrator.

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