Walter Swennen (born 1946) Crétin, 2011 Oil... Lot 21

Walter Swennen (born 1946) Crétin, 2011 Oil and wax on canvas Titled on the bottom center Initialed and dated on the reverse 50 x 60 cm Provenance: A.M. collection, Paris Note: "La vérité est dans les mots. Il a été dit: "bête comme un peintre". Bêtise, c'est le nom du réel avec quoi la pensée se dispute. La peinture a affaire au réel. Je m'occupe, dond des bêtises." (“Truth is in words. ‘Stupid like a painter’, it has been said. Stupidity, that is the name of the reality thought argues with. I am concerned, therefore, with stupidities.”) Walter Swennen