Brief aan Andries Bonger Possibly 1934

This handwritten letter to Andries Bonger is by Pierre-Georges Martin. It’s the kind of thing you find in an archive and marvel at. Imagine the gesture of writing, the pen held just so, the loops and swirls of the letters forming words, then sentences. It’s like a dance, a private performance captured on paper. The writer must have been in a very particular mood; I wonder what was on their mind? I think of Cy Twombly, whose scrawls and scribbles transformed the act of writing into art. Or even Hilma af Klint's notebooks, filled with diagrams and notes as she channelled unseen forces. This letter feels like a cousin to their work. There's an intimacy to this piece. It reminds us that art is a conversation, across time and between people. It is a human connection made visible. It's not just about what it says, but how it feels.