Albertina paul delvaux biography
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Paul Delvaux (1897 – 1994) was alway fascinated by Italy and Greece, destinations he visited multiple times during the course of his long life. In his youth he studied Ancient Greek and Latin, he was keen on Jules Verne's fiction and Homer's Odyssey: all of these aspects would later appear in his paintings, together with recurring figures of skeletons and trains, symbols of the technological progress he witnessed as a child in Brussels.
Delvaux was given solo exhibitions in 1938 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, and the London Gallery, the latter organized by E.
L. T. Mesens and Roland Penrose. That same year he participated in the Exposition Internationale du surréalisme at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, organized by André Breton and Paul Eluard, and an exhibition of the same title at the Galerie Robert in Amsterdam.
He held in 1945 his first major retrospective at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels;