Les moutons de Giotto, la correspondance de Van Gogh et les pantoufles de Balzac Malraux et les « vies d'artistes »

After having shown by way of passages from Néocritique that Malraux’s attitude towards biography was less negative than suggested elsewhere, this article analyses the presence of biographical elements in the aesthetic writings. These allow us to understand the incompatibilities between the biographical approach to art and Malraux’s conception of creation, while testifying to André Malraux’s interest in certain aspects of the lives of great painters.