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PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)

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ID 717776
Lot 105 | PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)
PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)

Le soir tombe

signed and dated ‘P. Delvaux 1-70.’ (lower right); signed again and inscribed ‘P. DELVAUX -LE SOIR TOMBE-' (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

55 1⁄4 x 71 in. (140.4 x 180.3 cm.)

Painted in January 1970







Provenance

Private collection, Brussels, by whom acquired directly from the artist in 1971, and thence by descent to the present owners.





Literature

'Paul Delvaux: Retrospective te Knokke', in De Volksgazet, Antwerp, 26 July 1973 (illustrated).

I. Lebeer, Paul Delvaux: Voice and Paintings [Interview with Paul Delvaux], Brussels, 1974, no. 32 (illustrated slide 32).

M. Butor, J. Clair & S. Houbart-Wilkin, Delvaux, Brussels, 1975, no. 315, p. 272 (illustrated).





Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paul Delvaux, April - June 1973, no. 67, p. 155 (illustrated).

Knokke-Heist, Casino, Paul Delvaux, June - September 1973, no. 56, p. 156 (illustrated).

Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Paul Delvaux, March - May 1975, no. 33 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, June - July 1975.

Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Paul Delvaux, March - July 1997, no. 110, p. 167 (illustrated).





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Artist:Paul Delvaux (1897 - 1994)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Medium:Canvas, Textile
Art style:Modern art, Surrealism
Genre:Cityscape
Place of origin:Belgium, Western Europe, Europe
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