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Paul DelvauxLes Captives by Paul Delvaux - Nudes, Work on paper, Ink1955
1955
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Les Captives by Paul Delvaux (1897-1994)
Pen, Indian ink and wash on paper
35 x 43.5 cm (13 ³/₄ x 17 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, P. Delvaux 1955
Inscribed on the reverse
Provenance: Christie's London, 2010
Private collection, London, acquired from the above
Artist biography:
Belgian artist Paul Delvaux was born in Liège in eastern Belgium. Despite Delvaux’s desire to become an artist, his lawyer father encouraged him to train as an architect at the prestigious Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
Thanks to private art tuition undertaken alongside his architectural studies, in 1925 Delvaux gained his first solo exhibition in Brussels. Heavily influenced by contemporary Expressionism and Surrealism, Delvaux was soon drawn to the ‘metaphysical’ paintings of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. On a chance visit to a museum of medical curiosities, Delvaux was moved by the sight of uncanny skeletons and haunting automatons – images and memories of which would provide his work with lifelong and evocative motifs.
Although most famous for his enigmatic female nudes set in dream-like landscapes, Delvaux - often compared to fellow Belgian surrealist René Magritte – did not in fact consider himself one of the surrealists, who were primarily concerned with the ‘interior logic’ of the unconscious mind. In developing his own unique iconography, Delvaux, instead, emphasised hallucinatory childhood readings of Classical Greek literature and the fictional fantasies of novelist Jules Verne.
In 1958 Delvaux was elected a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique and, in 1965, became a director of his alma mater, the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. To compliment his widely featured work in international museums across the world, the Paul Delvaux Museum opened on the south west coast of Belgium in 1982.
- Creator:Paul Delvaux (1897-1994, Belgian)
- Creation Year:1955
- Dimensions:Height: 13.78 in (35 cm)Width: 17.13 in (43.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU261215163102
Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux was born in 1897 in Belgium. He was one of the leading exponents of Surrealism, as well as one of the most popular painters of all time. He is famous for his female portraits located into mysterious surreal interiors and landscapes. In 1965, Delvaux was encouraged by Mira Jacob, a private collector of Symbolist and Surrealist paintings, to begin making lithographs. Later in 1976, Jacob published her book Paul Delvaux: Graphic Work, for which the Belgian artist produced many engravings, some of which are dry-points. Delvaux died in 1994.
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