In 1924 he founded a group named Correspondence with Paul Nougé and Camille Goemans from which he was excommunicated the following year; however, they became close again thanks to common interest in surrealism.
The same year he was excluded from the group, Lecomte published his second book of poetry entitled Applications.
[1] Lecomte also inspired a number of Magritte's paintings and was portrayed in his "Souvenir de Voyage" ("In Memory of a Journey", 1955).
While he continued to write poetry, Lecomte focused on critical work and reviews of art, philosophy and poetry, writing for a variety of newspapers, including a weekly column in La Laterne.
In 2013, University of Maryland doctoral student K. A. Wisniewski began translating selected poems by Lecomte into English.