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Article: PAUL DELVAUX, 96; BELGIAN PAINTER.(CAPITAL REGION)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- July 21, 1994
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Byline: Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium Paul Delvaux, the Belgian painter whose dreamlike depictions of skeletons, trains and nudes made him a master of surrealism, has died. He was 96.
His death Wednesday in Veurne, near the North Sea resort town of St. Idesbald, was announced by the Paul Delvaux Foundation.
Delvaux was one of the last surviving surrealist painters, but over the past decade, his output had been impeded by poor health and failing eyesight.
Delvaux's career spanned almost 70 years, during which he gained fame for depicting the richness of the subconscious in figurative but irrational images.
His ...