Magritte, René, Belgian surrealist artist (1898-1967). Autograph postcard, signed and illustrated.

€ 18,500.00

To the Belgian writer Marcel Lecomte, apologizing for being indisposed: "Mon cher ami, J'ai été empêché au dernier moment. Veuillé bien me faire signe dés que tu seras de retour. Je suppose que ceci te ressemblera un peu à ce moment: [drawing]. A bientôt et amitiés / Magritte".

Magritte's illustration shows Lecomte walking backwards upon arriving at the Brussels Gare du Midi with his books. A similar motif is seen in the enclosed photograph.

Reproduced on the dust jacket of Lecomte's "Poésies complètes" (Paris, La Difference, 2009). Provenance: from the collection of the painter Lou Gérardy (half-sister of the novelist Béatrix Beck), the poet's lover.