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Letter to M. N. (between 1953 and 1955)
I had the idea of the "Three figures" a few days after having taken
friends to the Museum of Fontainebleau. The starting point was given to
my subconscious by "salon de jeux" (I always seek to understand
afterwards the subject of the scribbles coming from my subconscious).
In this exhibit, there are several chairs called "voyeuses" that Louis
REAN's dictionary of Art and Archeology defines as "chair with an
armrest on which one sits astride resting the arms on the padded low
back". This kind of seat is intended to be used by those who watch the
game. Between the legs of the central figure sitting astride on the
voyeuse is inserted (still a puzzle) the card table with a suite of
cards down from which one (a six of hearts) is overturned. On the right
and on the left, two female characters touch the curves of the man who
holds in his hand a belt (he must have put himself at ease) reminding
one of a snake or a cord, the equivalent of the white ribbon in the
"ruban bouillonné". In several of my paintings, there are cords
or ribbons (symbolizing fixation of the child for its mother by the
umbilical cord, a cut cord means separation from the family). Excuse me
Sir, although I do not know you, to express myself with such details,
but I think that I owed you this explanation.
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