Details
PAUL DELVAUX (1897-1994)
Femme au corsage rose
signed and dated 'PDELVAUX 1-31' (lower right)
oil on canvas
39 5⁄8 x 31 ½ in. (100.5 x 80 cm.)
Painted in January 1931
Provenance
M. Giron, Brussels.
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above by 1978, and thence by descent.
Literature
M. Butor, J. Clair & S. Houbart-Wilkin, Delvaux, Brussels, 1975, no. 46, p. 160 (illustrated).
B. Emerson, Delvaux, Antwerp, 1985, p. 50 (illustrated p. 49; titled 'Woman in a bodice')
A. van Hoogenbemt, 'De nieuwe generatie-V. Paul Delvaux' in Kunst, Gand, 1993, no. 9, p. 301.
Exhibited
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Delvaux, Malfait, Van Overstraeten, 1931, no. 2.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, L'art en Belgique 1880-1950, June - August 1978, no. 155, p. 155 (illustrated pl. 153; titled 'Les Femmes').
San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, Paul Delvaux, Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Lithographs, Etchings, April - June 1980, no. 2, n.p. (illustrated n.p.; with inverted dimensions); this exhibition later travelled to Tucson, University of Arizona, Museum of Art, June - September 1980; Montréal, Galerie de l'Université du Québec, October 1980; Calgary, Glenbow Institute, November - December 1980; and Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, January - March 1981.
Ostend, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Van Ensor tot Delvaux, October 1996 - February 1997, p. 343 (illustrated).
Brussels, Museés royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Paul Delvaux, March - July 1997, no. 20, p. 75 (illustrated).

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