Paul Delvaux: Odyssey of a Dream by Z. Barthelman & J. Van Deun
4to. pp. 240. profusely illustrated in colour & b/w. biography. paperback. Saint-Idesbald, Belgium: Delvaux Foundation & BAI, 2007.
New.
ISBN 10: 9085864070 / ISBN 13: 9789085864073
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This monograph investigates the work of the Belgian Surrealist painter Paul Delvaux, a colleague of Rene Magritte's whose best-known works feature odd groupings of female nudes who stare into space, transfixed, while making enigmatic gestures in Surreally mismatched settings--for example while walking down an empty street, reclining in a train station or gathering in a complex of classical buildings. Sometimes these haunting muses wander through space accompanied by a skeletons; other times, they sit silently in long and sombre Puritanical dresses, as if serving out a penance.