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Property from a Private Collection, Europe

PAUL DELVAUX | L’IMPÉRATRICE

Auction Closed

June 29, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Europe

PAUL DELVAUX

1897 - 1994

L’IMPÉRATRICE 


Signed P. Delvaux and dated 7-74 (lower right)

Oil on panel

33½ by 49¼ in. (85 by 125 cm)

Framed: 41¾ by 57½ in. (106 by 146 cm)

Painted in July 1974.

Private Collection, Koksijde, Belgium (acquired from the artist)

Sale: Christie’s, London, December 9, 1997, lot 46

Acquired at the above sale

Michel Butor, Jean Clair & Suzanne Houbart-Wilkin, Delvaux, Catalogue de l’oeuvre peint, Lausanne & Paris, 1975, no. 330, illustrated p. 276

Osaka, Daimaru Museum of Art Umeda; Himeji, Himeji City Museum of Art; Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art & Toyama, Museum of Modern Art, Paul Delvaux, 1983-84, no. 25

Japan, Art Gallery 19 & Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamariti, Delvaux, 1986, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue

Paris, Grand Palais, Paul Delvaux, Peintures-Dessins 1922-1982, 1991, no. 63, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Osaka, Daimaru Museum of Art Umeda; Yamaguchi, Shimonoseki Daimaru Bunka Hall; Chiba, Sakura Municipal Museum of Art; Kyoto, Daimaru Museum of Art & Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art Shinjuku, Paul Delvaux, Exposition de centenaire, 1996-97, no. 34

Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Paul Delvaux, 1997, no. 114, illustrated in color in the catalogue

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