PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)

Lot 113
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Lot 113 | PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)
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£ 350 000 – 550 000
PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)

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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