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Paul Delvaux
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Paul Delvaux
- Trois femmes
- signed P. Delvaux, inscribed St. Idesbald and dated 17-9-55 (lower right)
- watercolour, pen and ink and wash on paper
- 55 by 72.9cm., 21 5/8 by 28 3/4 in.
Provenance
Private Collection, Belgium
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007
Catalogue Note
'When I paint, I seek to escape from modernity. I leave the exterior world and enter into my picture. I move around there, I live there...
(Paul Delvaux, quoted in: Barbara Emerson, Delvaux, Antwerp, 1985, p. 271)
(Paul Delvaux, quoted in: Barbara Emerson, Delvaux, Antwerp, 1985, p. 271)