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Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux was a Belgian painter noted for his dream-like scenes of women, classical architecture, trains and train stations, and skeletons, often in combination. He is often considered a surrealist, although he only briefly identified with the surrealist movement. He was influenced by the works of Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, but developed his own fantastical subjects and hyper-realist…
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culture · Belgian painter (1897–1994) · painter · illustrator · draftsperson · printmaker · watercolorist · sculptor · muralist · visual artist · graphic artist · also Paul Delvaux, Paul François Ernest Delvaux, Delvaux
Born 23 September 1897 · Died 20 July 1994 · Q164712
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2025· 2 entries
Artnet: Three Ultra-Rare Paul Delvaux Paintings Head to Auction Amid Surrealism Craze
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2024· 3 entries
Artnet news: Seven Dialogues with Paul Delvaux
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Moviefone: Paul Delvaux: The Sleepwalker of Saint Idesbald
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Moviefone: Rencontre avec Paul Delvaux
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2022· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Poster (1966). Lithograph in 4 tones printed by Mourlot for the exhibition of drawings and first lithographs of Paul Delvaux at the Bateau Lavoir in Paris. Size : 62 x 46 cm.
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2013· 1 entry
ジャパンタイムズ: Paul Delvaux’s stuff of dreams
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1994· 1 entry
Died 1994-07-20.
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1988· 1 entry
Delvaux left his studio in Saint-Idesbald to spend more time at home in Veurne with his ailing wife
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1986).
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Delvaux painted his last canvas, entitled Calypso
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1984· 1 entry
Delvaux was appointed Chef de gare d'honneur de Louvain-La-Neuve (honorary stationmaster)
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1981· 1 entry
Delvaux met Andy Warhol in Brussels, who made several portraits of the aging artist
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1978· 1 entry
Collaborated with Raymond Art and Charles Van Deun to paint the monumental fresco wall mural Nos vieux trams bruxellois ("Our Old Brussels Trams") in the Bourse-Beurs Brussels Metro station
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1976· 1 entry
Delvaux attended the formal transfer of the painting to a lecture hall at the Archives et Musée de la littérature (part of the Royal Library of Belgium) in Brussels, where it remains publicly visible today
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1974· 1 entry
Delvaux, with assistance of Raymond Art, Fernand Flausch, Alain Denis, and M Huysmans, painted Le Voyage Légendaire ("Legendary Voyage"), measuring 4
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1969· 1 entry
Delvaux moved to Veurne (also called Furnes), but still spent much of his time at his studio in nearby Saint-Idesbald
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1966· 1 entry
Delvaux began working with the 22-year-old model Danielle Caneel, using her slim figure as inspiration over the next 17 years in numerous drawings and studies
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1963· 1 entry
Was named vice-director of the Académie Royale de Belgique, and then promoted to be its president in 1965
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1960· 1 entry
Again worked with Gabriels to paint the mural La Genèse ("Genesis") at the University of Liège Institute of Zoology (now l'Aquarium-Muséum de Liège or Dubuisson Aquarium)
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1959· 1 entry
Delvaux collaborated with Ysette Gabriels and Charles Van Deun to paint Le paradis terrestre ("Earthly Paradise"), a 42-by-4
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1958· 1 entry
Delvaux led a team of La Cambre students in painting La Carte littéraire de Belgique ("Literary Map of Belgium") for the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair (Expo 58)
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1956· 1 entry
Delvaux visited Greece, where classical architecture originated, the land of Homer and the Odyssey
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1954· 1 entry
Delvaux joined the 27th Venice Biennale, whose theme that year was "Fantasy in Art"
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1952· 1 entry
Delvaux collaborated with Emile Salkin and three students from La Cambre to produce a wall mural at the gaming room in the Ostend Kursaal, portraying a Roman-style classical dancing scene with a large mermaid in a prone
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1951· 1 entry
The reunited couple built a small house/studio in the coastal dunes of Saint-Idesbald
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1949· 1 entry
Delvaux experimented with tempera to paint a mermaid on the front of a friend's house in Saint-Idesbald
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1947· 1 entry
The influential Julien Levy Gallery in New York City mounted a show of Delvaux paintings, which was well received by critics
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1946· 1 entry
Experimented briefly with exaggerated perspectives and a flattened picture plane, as shown in Les cariatides ("Caryatids") and La ville noire ("Black City")
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1943· 1 entry
Delvaux finished the first of what would become a series of articulated skeletons in his paintings, posed in lifelike stances and interacting with other skeletons or occasionally with nude women
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1940· 1 entry
Delvaux retreated to Pas-de-Calais with his aunts for eight days, but then returned to Brussels
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1936· 1 entry
And Magritte had separate shows at the Palais, which received favorable reviews
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1934· 1 entry
Delvaux joined Salvador Dalí, de Chirico, and Magritte in an exhibition entitled Minotaure, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles
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1932· 1 entry
Delvaux found fresh inspiration in visits to the Midi Fair (Foire du Midi) in Brussels, where the Spitzner Museum (Musée Spitzner), a collection of medical curiosities, displayed wax models of bizarrely deformed anatomic
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1929· 1 entry
Delvaux first met Anne-Marie de Maertelaere, whom he nicknamed "Tam", and they fell in love
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1925· 1 entry
Had his first solo exhibition, in Brussels
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1924· 1 entry
Set up a studio in his parents' house, at 15 Rue Ecosse (Schotlandstraat), Brussels
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1919· 3 entries
Produced his first watercolors of some scenic vistas
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Delvaux returned and studied with decorative painter Constant Montald (a former student of Puvis de Chavannes), and other teachers
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Met by chance the painter Franz Courtens
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1916· 1 entry
Started at the Académie, initially learning the basics of architecture and perspective drawing
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1897· 1 entry
Born 1897-09-23.
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