Lot 146
  • 146

PAUL DELVAUX | Les deux Amies

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 EUR
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Description

  • Paul Delvaux
  • Les deux Amies
  • signed P. DELVAUX, dated 1-4-67 and inscribed St IDESBALD (lower right)
  • watercolour and ink on joined paper
  • 62,9 x 100,8 cm; 24 3/4 x 39 5/8 in.
  • Executed in Saint Idesbald on April 1, 1967.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1967

Exhibited

Ixelles, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Delvaux, 1967
Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Hommage à Paul Delvaux, 1977, no. 122
Turin, Palazzo Bricherasio, Il surrealismo di Paul Delvaux tra Magritte e de Chirico, 2005-06, no. 52, illustrated in the catalogue

Condition

Executed on two sheets of cream coloured wove paper joined vertically at centre of the composition. The sheets are backed with Japan paper which is affixed to the backing board at intermittent points with tape. Upper, left and lower edges of the left-hand sheet and upper, right and lower edges of the right-hand sheet are deckled. There are a few scattered flyspecks and some spots of foxing near the lower centre edge. There are a few artist studio stains original to the work. The sheets are slightly light stained. The work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

The authenticity of this work has been verbally confirmed by the Fondation Paul Delvaux.