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PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)

Lot 105
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Lot 105 | PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)
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£ 1 000 000 – 2 000 000
PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)
Nuit de Noël
signed and dated ‘P. DELVAUX .2-56.' (lower right)
oil on masonite in the artist's painted frame
49 ¾ x 69 ½ in. (126.5 x 176.4 cm.)
Painted in February 1956




Provenance

Marcel Mabille, Brussels & Rhode-St-Genèse, by whom acquired directly from the artist by 1962; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 2 December 1986, lot 74.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent.



Literature

R. Genaille, Le Peinture en Belgique: De Rubens aux Surréalistes, Paris, 1958, p. 202.
E. Langui, ‘Paul Delvaux’s verden - og vor egen’ in Louisiana Revy, Humlebaek, March 1967, no. 13 (illustrated p. 21).
P.-A. De Bock, Paul Delvaux, Brussels, 1967, no. 117, p. 297 (illustrated p. 190).
A. Terrasse, Paul Delvaux, Paris, 1972, p. 60 (illustrated pp. 60-61).
M. Butor, J. Clair & S. Houbart-Wilkin, Delvaux, Catalogue de l’oeuvre peint, Brussels, 1975, no. 223, pp. 46 & 240 (illustrated p. 240; details illustrated pp. 46 & 47).
R. Passeron, Encyclopédie du Surréalisme, Paris, 1975, p. 150.
R. Huyghe, Les signes du temps et l’art moderne, Paris, 1985, p. 38.
B. Emerson, Delvaux, Antwerp, 1985, p. 166 (illustrated).
B. Dieterle, Erzählte Bilder: Zum narrativen Umgang mit Gemälden, Berlin, 1988, p. 200.
B. Fürstenberger, Michel Butors literarische Träume: Untersuchungen zu Matière de rêves I bis V, Heidelberg, 1989, p. 109.
M. Rombaut, Paul Delvaux, Barcelona, 1990, p. 22.
J. La Mothe et al., La création selon Michel Butor: réseaux, frontières, écart, Paris, 1991, p. 91.
C. Genin, L’expérience du lecteur dans les romans de Claude Simon: Lecture studieuse et lecture poignante, Paris, 1997, p. 76.
J. La Mothe, L’Architexture du rêve: La littérature et les arts dans Matière de rêves de Michel Butor, Amsterdam, 1999, pp. 167 & 171.
A. Rivas & Y. Rodríguez, Antología conmemorativa: Nueva revista de filología hispánica, cincuenta tomos, vol. II, Mexico City, 2003, p. 411.
Z. Barthelman & J. van Deun, Paul Delvaux: Odyssey of a Dream, Saint-Idesbald, 2007, p. 232.
R. Rémon, Paul Delvaux: peintre des gares, exh. cat., Brussels, 2009, pp. 22 & 23 (illustrated p. 23).



Exhibited

Charleroi, Salle de la Bourse, XXXIme Salon, Rétrospective Paul Delvaux, March - April 1957, no. 64 (with inverted dimensions).
Brussels, Maison Haute, XIIe Salon: Paul Delvaux, 1957, no. 11.
Brussels, Cercle Royal Gaulois, Artistique et Littéraire, Bruxelles vu par les Artistes, 1959, no. 47.
Ostend, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Paul Delvaux, July - August 1962, no. 47.
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum, 6 Surrealister, March - April 1967, no. 13 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Six peintres surréalistes, May - June 1967, no. 25 (illustrated).
Venice, XXXIV Biennale, Pavillon Belge, Delvaux, 1968, no. IX (illustrated).
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Rétrospective Paul Delvaux, May - July 1969, no. 49 (illustrated).
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