Lot Essay
The present work relates to Delvaux's oil of 1953 titled 'Lamentations autour du Christ mort' (B.214) now housed in the Musée d'Art Wallon in Liège.
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTOR
Paul Delvaux (1897-1994)
La mise au tombeau
Details
Paul Delvaux (1897-1994)
La mise au tombeau
signed and dated 'P. Delvaux 1953' (lower right)
gouache, watercolour, pen and black ink on several joined sheets of buff paper
27¾ x 47½in. (70.5 x 120.7cm.)
Executed in 1953
La mise au tombeau
signed and dated 'P. Delvaux 1953' (lower right)
gouache, watercolour, pen and black ink on several joined sheets of buff paper
27¾ x 47½in. (70.5 x 120.7cm.)
Executed in 1953
Provenance
Harry Torczyner, New York.
Staempfli Gallery, New York.
Helen Mary Harding, Hudson, Wisconsin, from whom purchased in 1986 by the present owner.
Staempfli Gallery, New York.
Helen Mary Harding, Hudson, Wisconsin, from whom purchased in 1986 by the present owner.