The inheritance tax forced the sale and the idea that the State could have created a museum keeping the collection intact but preferred to destroy it by the selling is the spleen
Seems to amount to punishing someone because their father was a painter. The state is indeed a sucking monster, bloodsuckers of immense proportion, a barnacle grown to 10 times the size of the whale.
Breton in contrast to many praised Rousseau and promoted him as an outstanding artist. He found in Rousseau Surrealism
The inheritance tax forced the sale and the idea that the State could have created a museum keeping the collection intact but preferred to destroy it by the selling is the spleen
The official state represses all thought it finds disagreeable and that is universal,
Would Valentine prefer that no one wanted to pay big money for Breton's collection.
What did Valentine want if he also didn't want a French state owned Breton museum.
Yet Valentine didn't criticise the daughter for selling it.
Seems to amount to punishing someone because their father was a painter. The state is indeed a sucking monster, bloodsuckers of immense proportion, a barnacle grown to 10 times the size of the whale.
What pray (prey) tell is the purpose of this posting? It has no correspondence to the playful image borrowed from Rousseau at the top of the page.
Meanwhile please check out this reference which, among other things contains commentaries on the Surrealist artists http://www.artandphysics.com
I missed seeing the playful Rousseau image.
I shall look again for it.