Paul Delvaux Figurative Prints

’The Dance’ By Paul Delvaux Medium - Lithograph Edition - 8/75 Signed - Yes Size - 360mm x 460mm Date - 1969 Condition - Excellent. 10 out of 10. Colour of print may not be accurate when viewed on a monitor. Paul Delvaux was a Belgian painter noted for his dream-like scenes of women, classical architecture, trains and train stations, and skeletons, often in combination. He is often considered a surrealist, although he only briefly identified with the Surrealist movement. He was influenced by the works of Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, but developed his own fantastical subjects and hyper-realistic styling, combining the detailed classical beauty of academic painting with the bizarre juxtapositions of surrealism. Throughout his long career, Delvaux explored "Nude and skeleton, the clothed and the unclothed, male and female, desire and horror, eroticism and death – Delvaux's major anxieties in fact, and the greater themes of his later work. Delvaux was born on 23 September 1897 in Antheit (now part of Wanze) in the Belgian province of Liège. His parents lived in Brussels, but his mother went to her own mother's home to have her first child. The birthplace house would later be destroyed by fire, in 1940. The father was Jean Delvaux, a prosperous barrister at the Court of Appeal Brussels. The mother was the musician Laure Jamotte, who became a strong, dominant presence in his life, directing, controlling, and repressing his childhood and adolescent desires. The young Delvaux studied Greek and Latin, and absorbed the fiction of Jules Verne and the poetry of Homer's Odyssey. His artwork was to be greatly influenced by these readings, starting with his earliest drawings showing mythological scenes. His music lessons were conducted in the school's museum room, where a human skeleton in a glass cabinet was always present. From 1910 to 1916, he studied Classics at the Atheneum of Saint-Gilles, where he was a middling or average student. Upon his graduation, his parents got him an office job with a shipping company in Brussels. It was soon evident that he had no skills or interests in business or law, and he was grudgingly allowed to study architecture at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts despite his ambition to become a painter. In 1916, he started at the Académie, initially learning the basics of architecture and perspective drawing. He was then disqualified due to his weakness in mathematics, and dropped out after his first year Delvaux was worried about his future career, and passed the time by copying postcards. His mother advised him to paint from nature, and in 1919 he produced his first watercolors, some scenic vistas. On a family vacation in Zeebrugge in 1919, he met by chance the painter Franz Courtens...

Girl with Hat is an original etching and drypoint realized by Paul Delvaux in 1970s. Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 17/75. Good condition. Includes a gilded wooden frame: 8...

Entracte is an original modern artwork realized by Paul Delvaux in 1975. Black and white etching on vélin d'Auvergne du Moulin Richard de Bas. Hand signed and numbered on the lowe...

La Plage (The Beach) is a rare impressive original lithograph on wove paper, realized in 1972 by the artist Paul Delvaux (1897-1994). Hand-signed in pencil "P. Delvaux" at the low...

Work is beautifully framed. Crisp and beautiful impression, full margins. Early Edition. Edition 3/75 - Great Price! Signed and numbered in pencil - Provenance: Sotheby's, Amsterd...

Construction d’un temple – Plate n.7 is a b/w original etching and drypoint realized in 1973 (as it is reported on plate on the lower-right margin) by Paul Delvaux. From the collect...

Construction d’un temple – Plate n.6 is a b/w original etching and dypoint realized in 1972 (as it is reported on plate on the lower-right margin) by Paul Delvaux. From the collection “Construction d’un temple en ruine à la déesse Vanadé” came into being from the collaboration of four years between the French author and a memeber of the Nouveau-Roman, Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008), and the Belgian artist Paul Delvaux (1897-1994). Firstly Robbe-Grillet wrote a text, to which Delvaux then replied witha wonderful engraving, Robbe-Grillet then responded with a second text. This is how the building blocks for this beautiful artist's book came together, upon which it was then constructed like a temple. The book was printed in an edition of 187 copies, of which only 40 contain the illustrations by Paul Delvaux. Our copy is unnumbered and printed on “Arches” ivory colored paper with the Bateau Lavoir watermark (on the lower right corner), and “Richard Bas” watermark (on the lower left margin). Image dimensions: 31.3 x 44.3 cm This beautiful artwork representing a woman looking at another woman pictured like ancient Greek marble statue...

Construction d’un temple – Plate n.5 is a b/w original etching and dypoint realized in 1972 (as reported on plate on the lower right margin) by Paul Delvaux. From the collection “Construction d’un temple en ruine à la déesse Vanadé”, this original print came into being from the collaboration of four years among the French author and a member of the Nouveau-Roman group Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008), and the Belgian artist Paul Delvaux (1897-1994). At first, Robbe-Grillet wrote a text, to which Delvaux then replied with a wonderful engraving, Robbe-Grillet then responded with a second text. This is how the building blocks of this beautiful book came together: it was constructed like a temple. The book was printed in an edition of 187 copies, of which only 40 contain the illustrations by Paul Delvaux. Our copy is unnumbered and printed on “Arches” ivory colored paper with the Bateau Lavoir watermark (on the lower right corner), and “Richard Bas” watermark (on the lower left margin). Image dimensions: 31.3 x 44.3 cm This exceptional artwork, representing an interesting composition with a woman depicted like an ancient Greek marble statue...

Paul Delvaux (Belgian, 1897 – 1994) ‘The Secret’, 1966 Signed and numbered P. Delvaux 35/75 (lower right and left respectively) Lithograph 28.1/4 x 21in. (71.7 x 53cm.) (to mount edge) Paul Delvaux’s career developed in the shadow of Nazi Germany. It should not come as a surprise then that his work is known for a distinct sense of anxiety and unease. Surprisingly, that anxiety is not expressed in overtly political subjects. Delvaux was instead interested in exploring humanity and the hidden recesses of the subconscious. He began his artistic training studying architecture in 1916. But soon shifted his focus to painting. While he initially found inspiration in European Expressionism, his mature style was inspired by an altogether different source, the Surrealists. Although he was not an official member of the Surrealists, he shared the group’s interest in plumbing the depths of the mind. Like his contemporaries Giorgio de Chirico and Rene Magritte, Delvaux used...

Paul Delvaux (Belgian, 1897 – 1994) Le Grenier, 1982 Soft-ground etching Signed and inscribed EA in pencil 48 x 38.7 cm. Provenance: De Vuyst Gallery, Belgium

Paul Delvaux (Belgian, 1897 – 1994) Stained Glass Window, 1969 Etching, dated within the plate, signed and inscribed HC in pencil