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  • "I remember talking about my kids, and what my husband and I do, which is following the NASCAR circuit," recalled Delvaux, 45, who is back to work after surgery in February.

    chicagotribune.com - 2009

  • The Museum of Modern Art offered up Paul Delvaux 's 1941 "The Hands," a mysterious mish-mash of nude and clothed figures milling about a sharply lit portico.

    $16.3 Million Max Ernst Caps Christie's Choppy Sale Kelly Crow 2011

  • His writing repeatedly references artists such as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Giorgio de Chirico and Yves Tanguy [9], and their paintings feature frequently in his fiction.

    Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction 2010

  • With Ernst and Delvaux [12] featuring prominently in The Drowned World, the use of a Tanguy painting, The Palace of Windowed Rocks, on the cover of the paperback edition published by Penguin Books in 1965 might have seemed off-key were it not for The Drought which also appeared that year.

    Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction 2010

  • Auctioneers are working harder to promote easier-to-find Surrealist painters like René Magritte, who is known for painting green apples and bowler hats, and Paul Delvaux , known for his lounging nymphs.

    Auction Houses Clean Up as Investors Vie for Art Kelly Crow 2012

  • It was here, and in the work of Surrealists such as Salvador Dali and Paul Delvaux, that Ballard found the seeds of what he called a “fiction for the present day”.

    Ballardian » Crash: Homage to JG Ballard 2010

  • For eroticism, it's hard to beat Paul Delvaux, who specialized in naked beauties in totally strange backgrounds, such as "The Nude and the Mannequin" 1947.

    Surrealism's Startling Appeal Margaret Studer 2012

  • Bartra's 300-plus-page tome comes beautifully illustrated with reproduced works of art by Piero di Cosimo, Durer, Goya, Blake and Paul Delvaux; unusual and rare depictions of wild men and freaks compiled by the author; and engravings for original editions of such books as Robinson Crusoe: The Life and Strange Surprizing (sic) Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver.

    Society's fascination with the wild outsider 2008

  • Bartra's 300-plus-page tome comes beautifully illustrated with reproduced works of art by Piero di Cosimo, Durer, Goya, Blake and Paul Delvaux; unusual and rare depictions of wild men and freaks compiled by the author; and engravings for original editions of such books as Robinson Crusoe: The Life and Strange Surprizing (sic) Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver.

    Society's fascination with the wild outsider 2008

  • "Of Tomorrow by Delvaux" showcases paintings featuring stations, trains and tramways by Belgian Surrealist artist Paul Delvaux (1897-1994).

    Time Off 2009

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