ID 908078
Lot 113 | PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)
Estimate value
£ 350 000 – 550 000
Squelette
signed, dated and inscribed ‘P. DELVAUX ANDERLECHT 7-45’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
61 7/8 x 23 1/2 in. (157 x 59.7 cm.)
Painted in Anderlecht in July 1945
Provenance
Gustav van Geluwe, Brussels.
Dr Purnal, Brussels.
Mme Jean Krebs, Brussels, by 1971.
Galleria Internazionale, Milan, by 1975.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 4 April 1978, lot 40.
Private collection, Belgium, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Private collection, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above circa 1998; sale, Christie's, London, The Art of the Surreal, 4 February 2008, lot 180.
Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2008.
Literature
M. Butor, J. Clair & S. Houbart-Wilkin, Delvaux: catalogue de l'œuvre peint, Brussels, 1975, no. 159, p. 213 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Ostende, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paul Delvaux, July - August 1962, no. 76.
Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Surréalisme, May - September 1971, no. 57, p. 49 (titled 'Squelette à l'Atelier').
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Le Hainaut, terre de surréalisme, October 1971, no. 19.
Knokke-Heist, Christian Fayt Art Gallery, Selection I, June - July 1978, no. 16.
New York, Cheim & Reid, I am as you will be - The Skeleton in Art, September - November 2007.
San Francisco, Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern, Exultation: Sex, Death and Madness in Eight Surrealist Masterworks, 2011.
London & New York, Blain di Donna Gallery, Paul Delvaux, 2013, p. 33.
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| Artist: | Paul Delvaux (1897 - 1994) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted |
| Medium: | Canvas, Textile |
| Art style: | Modern art, Surrealism |
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Paul Delvaux (1897 - 1994) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted |
| Medium: | Canvas, Textile |
| Art style: | Modern art, Surrealism |
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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