Delvaux, Paul

(9/23/1897 Antheit-7/20/1994 Veurne) (Belgium)

   Painter, watercolorist, draftsman, and print-maker. Trained at the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Became the major exponent of Surrealism in Belgium. Many of his works were dream-like images with nude female figures.

   Reproductions: Bacchanale ou la statue; 1967; watercolor; Kronhausen, 1968: p. 118 . Chrysis; 1967; oil; Smith, 1980: p. 119 . Effervescent women; 1968; gouache; Smith, 1980: pp. 98-99 [C]. Le corti-giane; 1943; oil; Sommer, 1981: plate 18 [B]. Mermaid; Melville, 1973: fig. 213 [B]. Night train; oil; Smith, 1974: pp. 116-117 [C]. Two girls; 1946; Lucie-Smith, 1972: p. 202 [B]. Two women; mixed media; Smith, 1974: pp. 118-119 [C]. [Two nude females in bed]; 1967; watercolor and ink; Kron-hausen, 1968: p. 118 [B]. Venus asleep; 1944; Webb, 1975: p. 228 [B].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 4: pp. 687-690; Paul-Aloise de Bock, Paul Delvaux (Brussels: Laconti, 1967); Ronny Cohen, "Paul Delvaux's imagination," Artforum 23, 5 (February 1985): pp. 55-59; Paul Delvaux, Delvaux (Geneva: Galerie Kruger, c1966); DoA vol. 8: pp. 699700; S. Nishizawa, ["Delvaux's territory"; in Japanese], Mizue 840 (March 1975): pp. 5-43; J. Philip O'Hara, Paul Delvaux (Chicago: J. Philip O'Hara, 1973); Jerome Peignot, "L'erotisme occulte de Delvaux," Opus International 19-20 (October 1970): pp. 36-38; David Scott, "Loving perspectives," Irish Arts Review Yearbook 10 (1994): pp. 189-194; Vollmer I 1953: p. 541.