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PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)
Faubourg
signed and dated 'P. Delvaux 11-56' (lower right)
oil on panel
51 x 51 in. (129.7 x 129.7 cm.)
Painted in November 1956
Provenance
The artist's studio, Boitsfort.
René Simonis, Brussels, by 1962; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 3 December 1975, lot 48.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, London, The Art of the Surreal, 4 February 2009, lot 44.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, New York, 5 November 2014, lot 32.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
L.L. Sosset, 'Les expositions à Brussels', in Les Beaux Arts, 5 April 1957, no. 767 (illustrated p. 5).
L.L. Sosset, 'Un monde d'évasion en suspens: Paul Delvaux', in Le Rail, January 1965, no. 101 (illustrated p. 23).
L.L. Sosset, 'Een wereld van magisch realisme: Paul Delvaux', in Het Spoor, January 1965, no. 101 (illustrated p. 23).
P.A. de Bock, Paul Delvaux l'homme, le peintre, psychologie d'un art, Brussels, 1967, p. 297 (illustrated pl. 119, p. 193).
M. Butor, J. Clair & S. Houbart-Wilkin, Delvaux: Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Brussels, 1975, no. 226, p. 241 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Charleroi, Cercle royal Artistique et Littéraire, Salle de la Bourse, XXXIe Salon, hommage à Marc Chagall rétrospective Paul Delvaux March - April 1957, no. 66.
São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Pavillon belge, IV Bienal, September - December 1957, no. 7 (illustrated).
Ostend, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paul Delvaux July - August 1962, no. 50.
Geneva, Galerie Krugier, Rétrospective Paul Delvaux September - October 1966, no. 15.
Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, Paul Delvaux November - December 1967, no. 32 (illustrated).
Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Paul Delvaux March - July 1997, no. 87 (illustrated p. 144).
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