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Article: Paul Delvaux, 96, Surrealist Painter
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 22, 1994
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BRUSSELS, Belgium Paul Delvaux, one of the last surrealist
painters, died Wednesday at age 96.
His death in Veurne, near the North Sea resort town of St.
Idesbald, was announced by the Paul Delvaux Foundation.
Mr. Delvaux's paintings - depicting the richness of the
subconscious in figurative but irrational images - hang alongside
those of Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte in many of the world's
museums.
"Young Girl in Front of a Temple," which was painted in 1949,
sold for $1 million 40 years later. Other major works included
"Sleeping Venus" (1933) and "Evening Trains" (1957).
Mr. Delvaux, who made naked women a central theme of his
paintings during a time ...