PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, BRUSSELS
La rose (Femme à la rose)
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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, BRUSSELS
Paul Delvaux
1897 - 1994
La rose (Femme à la rose)
signed P DELVAUX and dated 4-36 (lower right)
oil on canvas
116 x 89,3 cm; 45⅝ x 35⅛ in.
Executed in April 1936.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lewin, Los Angeles (since 1955 at the earliest)
William and Noma Copley, New York (probably acquired from the above circa 1968)
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels (by 1977)
Private Collection, Brussels (acquired from the above by 1992)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Delvaux-Magritte, 1936, no. 7
Paris, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paul Delvaux. Rétrospective, 1969, no. 10
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Hommage à Paul Delvaux, 1977
Brussels, Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Hommage à Paul Delvaux, 1977, no.75
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Dada & Surrealism Reviewed, 1978, no. 13
Hamburg, Kunstverein und Kunsthaus; and Rome, Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, René Magritte und der Surrealismus in Belgien / Magritte e il surrealismo in Belgio, 1982
Brussels, Aspects, Hommage à Paul Delvaux, 1985, no. 4
Gent, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Open mind, 1989
Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Paul Delvaux : Das Geheimnis der Frau, 2006-2007
London and New York, Blain Di Donna, Paul Delvaux, 2013
Basel, Di Donna, Art Basel, 2019
Liège, La Boverie, Les Mondes de Paul Delvaux, 2025, no. 28, p. 55
Les Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1 May 1936, no. 203, p. 16, illustrated
Claude Spaak, Paul Delvaux, Antwerp, 1948, p. 8, illustrated pl. 1
J. Seaux, “Le monde et l'art de Delvaux”, in Le Peuple, Brussels, 5 August 1952, p. 4
Paul Dewalhens, Delvauxiana, Paris, 1955, n.p.
Robert Genaille, La peinture en Belgique. De Rubens aux surréalistes, Paris, 1958, p. 201
Marcel Jean, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1959, p. 275.
Jules Bosmant, Trésors Communaux. Cinquante Peintures, Brussels, 1960, p. 297
Suzanne Houbart-Wilkin, “Introduction”, in Paul Delvaux, Leuven, 1962, pp. 72-73.
Paul-Aloïse de Bock, Paul Delvaux. Der Mensch. Der Maler, Hamburg, 1965, p. 34, illustrated pl. 5
Paul-Aloïse de Bock, Paul Delvaux, Brussels, 1967, pp. 69 and 289, illustrated pl. 24
René Passeron, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1968, p. 176.
William S. Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art, London, 1969, fig. 330, pp. 316-17, illustrated
Sarane Alexandrian, Surrealist Art, London, 1970, p. 125
Xavière Gauthier, Surréalisme et Sexualité, Paris, 1971, p. 101
Jacques Meuris, 7 dialogues avec Paul Delvaux accompagnés de 7 lettres imaginaires, Paris, 1971, p. 36
Jacques Meuris, “Symbolistes et surréalistes belges. Les peintres du rêve”, in Plaisir de France, Paris, March 1972, no. 397, p. 5
Michel Butor, Jean Clair and Suzanne Houbart-Wilkin, Delvaux: Catalogue de l'Œuvre Peint, Brussels, 1975, no. 74, illustrated p. 170 (with incorrect dimensions)