PAUL DELVAUX | LES VESTALES

Auction Closed

October 29, 01:50 AM GMT

Estimate

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

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

PAUL DELVAUX

1897 - 1994

LES VESTALES

Signed P. Delvaux and dated 9-72 (toward lower right); signed P. Delvaux and titled (on the stretcher)

Oil on canvas

55⅛ by 74¾ in.

140 by 190 cm

Painted in September 1972.

Mira Jacob, Paris (acquired from the artist and sold: Sotheby’s, Paris, September 23, 2004, lot 85)

Sale: Marc-Arthur Kohn, Cannes, August 4, 2008, lot 289

Acquired at the above sale

Michel Butor, Jean Clair & Suzanne Houbart-Wilkin, Delvaux, Brussels, 1975, no. 322, illustrated p. 274

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Paul Delvaux, 1973, no. 69, illustrated in the catalogue

Knokke-Heist, Casino Knokke-Heist, Paul Delvaux, 1973, no. 58, illustrated in the catalogue

Paris, Galerie Le Bateau-Lavoir, La Peinture et son double, 1974, no. 125, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Torino, Palazzo Bricherasio, Il Surrealismo di Paul Delvaux tra Magritte e de Chirico, 2005-06, no. I.36, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Das Geheimnis der Frau: Paul Delvaux, 2006-07