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La cheminée
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Paul Delvaux (1887-1994)
La cheminée
signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'La cheminée 7-75 Furnes P. Delvaux' (lower right)
watercolour, wash, pen and India ink on paper
31¼ x 22½ in. (79.1 x 57 cm.)
Executed in July 1975 in Furnes
La cheminée
signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'La cheminée 7-75 Furnes P. Delvaux' (lower right)
watercolour, wash, pen and India ink on paper
31¼ x 22½ in. (79.1 x 57 cm.)
Executed in July 1975 in Furnes
Provenance
Paul Delvaux, St. Idesbald.
Private collection, Belgium.
Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke, Belgium.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1990s.
Private collection, Belgium.
Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke, Belgium.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1990s.
Exhibited
Osaka, Museum of Art of Daimaru, Paul Delvaux, October - November 1983, no. 78; this exhibition later travelled to Himeji, City Art Museum, January 1984; Tokyo, Isetan Art Museum, February 1984, and Toyama, Museum of Modern Art, April 1984.
Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Il surrealismo di Delvaux fra Magritte e de Chirico, October 2005 - January 2006.
Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Il surrealismo di Delvaux fra Magritte e de Chirico, October 2005 - January 2006.
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