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Projet pour 'L'aube sur la ville'
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Paul Delvaux (1897-1944)
Projet pour 'L'aube sur la ville'
signed with the initials, dated and titled 'Projet pour "L'Aube sur la Ville" 1940 P.D' (on the reverse)
gouache, watercolour and pen and ink on paper
8¼ x 10 5/8in. (21 x 27cm.)
Executed in 1940
Projet pour 'L'aube sur la ville'
signed with the initials, dated and titled 'Projet pour "L'Aube sur la Ville" 1940 P.D' (on the reverse)
gouache, watercolour and pen and ink on paper
8¼ x 10 5/8in. (21 x 27cm.)
Executed in 1940
Provenance
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels (no. DELV 0294).
Galerie Ubu, Knokke.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1970s.
Galerie Ubu, Knokke.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1970s.
Exhibited
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot, Paul Delvaux, Sept.-Nov. 1992.
Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Paul Delvaux, Mar.-July 1997, no. 170 (illustrated p. 229).
Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Paul Delvaux, Mar.-July 1997, no. 170 (illustrated p. 229).
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