"Drawings: Armand Simon"
2001-11-27 until 2002-01-27
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels, , BE Belgium

From 1933 on, Armand Simon (1906-1981) makes drawing his unique language. Self-taught, he doesn't stop working on what Chavée will qualify an exceptionally illustrated catalogue of the psyche abyssal zones. As a booklover, he quenches his thirst of images in sources like Lautréamont, Rimbaud, Kafka and Lewis Carroll. His works are shown for the first time in December 1945, on the occasion of the exhibition Surréalisme in the Brussels gallery La Boétie.

He rarely leaves his house in Pâturages and remains an odd recluse within the movement. Thanks to purchases, but principally to his widow's legacy of a thousand of his works (in 1987), completed with another legacy by Irène Hamoir, the Museum now owns an important collection of this artist's works.

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