
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
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