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PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)

Lot 121
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Lot 121 | PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)
Estimate value
£ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)
L'Été
signed and dated ‘P.DELVAUX. .6-63.’ (lower right); signed and inscribed ‘L’ÉTÉ P.DELVAUX’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
47 ¼ x 59 in. (120 x 149.8 cm.)
Painted in 1963




Provenance

Louis & Nizette Camu, Aalst, by whom commissioned from the artist, and until the early 1980s.
Galerie Jos Depypere, Kuurne, Belgium.
Private collection, by whom acquired from the above in October 1985, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

P. Caso, ‘Le cercle Hainaut Cinq au Musée de Mons. Un hommage à Paul Delvaux’ in Le Soir, Brussels, 18 March 1965.
P.-A. de Bock, Paul Delvaux, Brussels, 1967, no. 154, p. 300 (illustrated pl. 154, p. 229; with incorrect dimensions).
Jardin des Arts, no. 174, Paris, May 1969, p. 79 (illustrated).
M. Butor, J. Clair & S. Houbart-Wilkin, Delvaux, Brussels, 1975, no. 278, p. 260 (with incorrect illustration; illustrated no. 259, p. 253).
G. Carels & C. Van Deun, Paul Delvaux, His Life, Saint-Idesbald, 2004, p. 202 (illustrated in-situ in the artist’s studio).



Exhibited

Mons, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Hainaut Cinq. Hommage à Paul Delvaux, March 1965 no. 12.
Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, Paul Delvaux, 1967, no. 47 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).
Kuurne, Galerie Jos Depypere, Group Exhibition, October 1985 (illustrated).
Paris, Centre Culturel Wallonie Bruxelles, Hommage à Paul Delvaux, December 1985 – March 1986, no. 19.
Brussels, Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Paul Delvaux, March – July 1997, no. 103, p. 160 (illustrated).
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