1913 - 1991 painter and sculptor Maurice Rapin first comes
across Magritte’s work at the Salon d’Automne de la Libération
in Paris in 1946. As for Mirabelle Dors, she meets Magritte
(along with Clovis Trouille and Rapin) at the A l’Etoile scellée
gallery in Paris in 1953, where she had been invited to exhibit.
She marries Maurice Rapin in 1954. Rapin and Dors were during
this time close to Breton’s vision of things, but they soon turn
dissident and become confidants of Magritte. In 1957 the pair
launch La Tendance populaire surréaliste, a project aiming 'to
pursue surrealist investigations into new and specific domains'.
In November, they publish a series of tracts on Magritte,
drawing on extracts of their correspondance with him. Each page
is illustrated by one of the painter’s works. Magritte’s
correspondance addressed to Rapin and Dors between 1955 and 1958
was published by the couple in 1976, and donated to the Royal
Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in 1997. Mirabelle Dors in
Nogent-le-Rotrou, 1967 Pamphle