PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, EUROPE
Paul Delvaux
Les démons de la nuit
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Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 EUR
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, EUROPE
Paul Delvaux
1897 - 1994
Les démons de la nuit
signed P. DELVAUX, inscribed and dated St Idesbald 19-7-68 (lower right), titled Les démons de la nuit (in the centre)
watercolour and India ink and wash on paper
68 x 102 cm; 26¾ x 40⅛ in.
Executed on 19th of July, 1968.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Paul Delvaux Foundation.
Michèle Lachowsky, Brussels
Private Collection, Brussels
Private Collection, United Kingdom (by descent from the above before the 1980s)
Sotheby's, London, 3 February 2016, lot 55 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Grenoble, Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Paul Delvaux, peintures, aquarelles, encres, 1970, no. 32, illustrated
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique & Liège, Musée de la Ville, Hommage à Paul Delvaux, 1977, no. 45 (with incorrect dimensions)
New York, The Elkon Gallery, Paul Delvaux, René Magritte, 1988, no. 17, illustrated in colour
Paris, Galerie d’Orsay, Les peintres Surréalistes: Delvaux, Ensor, Labisse, Magritte…, 1999, illustrated in colour
Monaco, Salle d'exposition du Quai Antoine 1er, Paul Delvaux, 2001
Barbara Emerson, Paul Delvaux, Paris, 1985, illustrated in colour p. 192