Paul Delvaux

Paul Delvaux was a Belgian painter associated with Surrealism, famous for his paintings of female nudes.

Delvaux was born in Antheit in the Belgian province of Lige, the son of a lawyer. The young Delvaux took music lessons, studied Greek and Latin, and absorbed the fiction of Jules Verne and the poetry of Homer. All of his work was to be influenced by these readings, starting with his earliest drawings showing mythological scenes. He studied at the Acadmie Royale des BeauxArts in Brussels, albeit in the architecture department owing to his parents disapproval of his ambition to be a painter. Nevertheless, he pursued his goal, attending painting classes taught by Constant Montald and Jean Delville. The painters Frans Courtens and Alfred Bastien also encouraged Delvaux, whose works from this period were primarily naturalistic landscapes. He completed some 80 paintings between 1920 and 1925, which was the year of his first solo exhibition.

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