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PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)

Lot 107
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Lot 107 | PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)
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£ 500 000 – 1 000 000
PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)
Les belles de nuit (Comédie du soir ou La comédie)
signed and dated ‘P. DELVAUX 11-36' (lower right)
oil on canvas in the artist's original painted frame
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in. (100 x 100 cm.)
Painted in November 1936




Provenance

The London Gallery [E.L.T Mesens], London, by 1937.
Claude Spaak, Paris, by 1938.
Edward James, West Dean & London; his estate sale, Christie’s, New York, 6 October 1988, lot 71.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent.



Literature

The London Bulletin, no. 3, London, June 1938, p. 6.
Surrealist Diversity 1915-1945, London, 1945 (a detail illustrated).
P. Dewalhens, Delvauxiana (poèmes), Paris, 1955.
P.-A. De Bock, Paul Delvaux, Brussels, 1967, no. 25, p. 289 (illustrated p. 68; with incorrect dimensions).
Plexus, no. 7, Paris, 1967, p. 66 (illustrated).
J. Vovelle, Le surréalisme en Belgique, Brussels, 1972, p. 189.
S. Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1973, p. 17.
M. Prince, The Dissociation of a Personality: The Hunt for the Real Miss Beauchamp, Oxford, 1978 (detail illustrated on the front cover).
P. Purser, Where is He Now?: The Extraordinary Worlds of Edward James, London, 1978, p. 73 (illustrated in situ p. 72).
G. Zwang, Le sexe de la femme, Paris, 1979, p. 432 (a detail illustrated).
M. Paquet, Paul Delvaux: l’essence de la peinture, vol. I, Saint-Idesbald, 1982, no. 25, pp. 35 & 100.
B. Emerson, Delvaux, Antwerp, 1985 (illustrated pp. 76-77).
M. Del Castillo, Tara, Paris, 1990 (detail illustrated on the front cover).
P. Purser, Poeted: The Final Quest of Edward James, London, 1991, pp. 76 & 92.
N. Coleby, ed., A Surreal Life: Edward James, London, 1998, p. 61. (illustrated).
H. Périer, Pierre Restany: l’alchimiste de l’art, Paris, 1998, p. 395.
G. Wood, Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design, exh. cat., London, 2007, p. 49 (illustrated in situ p. 38).
Z. Barthelman & J. van Deun, Paul Delvaux: Odyssey of a Dream, Saint-Idesbald, 2007, p. 228.
N. Bodskaïa, Le Surréalisme: Genèse d’une révolution, New York, 2009, p. 236.
G. Stamp, Anti-Ugly: Excursions in English Architecture and Design, London, 2013, p. 24.
R. B. Elder, Dada, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect, Waterloo, ON, 2013, p. 323.



Exhibited

London, The London Gallery, Pictures by Young Belgian Artists, January - February 1937, no. 5.
The Hague, Esher Surrey Art Galleries, Delvaux, February - March 1937, no. 1.
Antwerp, Salle des Fêtes, L'Art contemporain, Salon 1937, April - May 1937, no. 146, p. 31.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition d'art belge contemporain, June - August 1938, no. 269, p. 67 (with incorrect dimensions).
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Paul Delvaux, April - June 1973, no. 9, p. 116 (illustrated).
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Edward James Collection, Dali, Magritte and other Surrealists, August - September 1976, no. 31, p. 9 (illustrated p. 15).
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