Origins

Origins

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Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland

Paul Delvaux

La Légende égyptienne

Auction Closed

February 8, 06:44 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland

Paul Delvaux

1897 - 1944


La Légende égyptienne

signed P. Delvaux and dated 11-53 (lower right)

oil on panel

119 by 150 cm. 

46 7/8 by 59 in.

Executed in November 1953.

M. Toussaint, Brussels

Obelisk Gallery, London

Private Collection, London (acquired from the above) 

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 25 January 1961, lot 95 (consigned by the above)

Caroline and Erwin Swann, Pennsylvania (acquired at the above sale) 

Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1969, lot 90 (consigned by the above)

Francis Peter, Brussels (acquired at the above sale)

Palais Galliéra, Paris, 11 June 1974, lot 65

Brook Street Gallery, London

The Ishizuka Research Institute, Tokyo (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, Europe

Sotheby's, London, 24 June 2003, lot 172 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

J. E. Patterson, "The Burgeoning Market for Surrealism," Auction, vol. IV, no. 4, December 1970, p. 37

José Vovelle,

Le Surréalisme en Belgique, Brussels, 1972, p. 213, illustrated

Michael Butor, Jean Clair and Suzanne Houbart-Wilkin, Delvaux, Lausanne and Paris, 1975, no. 217, pp. 237-38, illustrated 

Exh. Cat., Andros, Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation and Brussels, Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique, Delvaux et le monde antique, 2009-10, p. 167

Edene Derzelle, David Strivay, Francisca Vandepitte, Hippolyte Stassart and Catherine Defeyt, “Discovery of a painting inspired by Ancient Egypt on the reverse of Train du Soir (1957) by Paul Delvaux,” The European Physical Journal Plus, vol. 139, no. 947, 28 October 2024

New York, Gallery of Modern Art; Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Salt Lake Art Center; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Museum of Art and Dayton Art Institute, Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures from the Collection of Caroline and Erwin Swann. The Pleasures of the Eye, 1964-66, no. 10, p. 11, illustrated  

Turin, Galleria Gissi, Le Sillabe mute dell'immaginazione. 12 maestri del surrealismo, 1971, no. 10, illustrated in color