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Maurice Baskine - Surrealist - Paul Ferguson - 11-01-2024
"Successively a bank clerk, accountant and sales representative, Baskine finally discovered alchemy in 1937, via the book Letter From the Cosmopolitan by Alexander Sethon, and began his search for the Philosopher's Stone while living in Fontenay-sous-Bois, just outside Paris, with his wife. Taking his inspiration from alchemical symbolism, Baskine also made painted images and objects in plaster tinted to imitate "the matter of the Great Work." In 1945, at the Galerie Katia Granoff in Paris, he showed Le Temple du Mas, which caught the eye of Jean Dubuffet. At the exhibition, Surrealism in 1947, at Galerie Maeght, he presented Le Mas Goth, which featured a double Janus head and a mandrake. André Breton asked him to illustrate the deluxe edition of Arcane 17 (1947 edition) with three etchings. Baskine developed "fantasophy," a system of thought comparable to a philosophy of fantasy (or phantasm)."
http://www.thesurrealists.org/maurice-baskine.html
Video (in French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2H2zwUcmxA
https://traditionaltarot.wordpress.com/2021/07/02/maurice-baskine-le-tarot-de-la-conscience/
https://fr.everand.com/book/351486189/The-Esoteric-Secrets-of-Surrealism-Origins-Magic-and-Secret-Societies