Paris Moscou. Frans Masereel, voyage au pays des soviets. Antique Balthus… I leafed through these

Balthus… I leafed through these slightly yellowed pages in amazement

series of models – dummy vases with a symbolic function –

dans Agrapha

thanks to the preservation of organic remains

Paris Moscou. Frans Masereel, voyage au pays des soviets. Antique Balthus… I leafed through theseEngaged in the social struggles of his time and close to the communist ideals which denounced the stranglehold of capital in all sectors of life, the Belgian artist Frans Masereel (1889 1972) made two trips to the Soviet Union in 1935 and 1936, in order to see if there was anything new in the East. This work retraces, using rare documents and sources drawn from Russian archives, the tribulations of a friend of the people. Born in Blankenberghe in