Best Wishes for 1973 from La Galerie Sagot-LeGarrec 1972

André Masson gifted “Best Wishes for 1973 from La Galerie Sagot-LeGarrec,” to someone, or maybe everyone, with ink on paper. I can imagine Masson’s hand moving freely, letting his subconscious guide the pen across the surface. It's a landscape of the mind, populated with creatures and symbols that feel both familiar and alien. Those delicate lines create a sense of movement like wind rustling through leaves or water rippling in a pond. The longer you look the more you see. A face emerges from the landscape. It looks like he was thinking about Miro, and maybe Klee, artists who turned to abstraction to evoke the invisible. As an artist, you’re always in conversation with the past, riffing on what came before. A piece like this reminds me that painting isn’t just about what you see, it’s about feeling and intuition. It embraces the joy of discovery, and the knowledge that art is always a process of becoming.