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Paul Delvaux

Composition

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Paul Delvaux

(1897 - 1994)


Composition

signed P. Delvaux and dated 11-45 (lower right)

oil on canvas

80 ⅜ by 94 ⅜ in.   204.2 by 239.6 cm

Executed in 1945.

Suzanne Bertouille, Brussels (acquired by descent from the artist)

Bernard Giron, Brussels 

Acquired from the above by 1975 by the present owner

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 65, p. 122, illustrated in color

Sarane Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1973, pp. 18-19, illustrated in color

Michael Butor, Jean Clair and Suzanne Houbart-Wilkin, Delvaux, Lausanne and Paris, 1975, no. 165, p. 215, illustrated (with incorrect dimensions)

Jacques Baron, Anthologie plastique du surréalisme, Paris, 1980, p. 89, illustrated in color