Paul Delvaux, influenced by the work of Giorgio De Chirico, began to experiment with settings and perspective. From this time on, the same motifs often recurred in his work: expressionless figures, temples drawn from classical antiquity or the Renaissance with an explicit, sometimes complex perspective and bathed in an unnatural light. This setting, in grey tones with very few colour accents, heightens the unreal atmosphere evoked in such paintings as The Staircase. However Delvaux makes no use of irony, which is a typical feature of Surrealism. His art, which is solemn and rather detached, is more related to the Magic Realism of the Dutch artist Albert Carel Willink.
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Paul Delvaux
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| Title | The Staircase |
| Date | 1946 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature, month and year bottom right: P. DELVAUX / 12-46 |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1950-U |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1950-U |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/2161/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300056485
fantastic art
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300189808 figures (representations) AAT 300055865 Symbolism (artistic concept) AAT 300015571 cityscapes (representations) AAT 300124520 interior views AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
12E61
temple, shrine ~ Greek religion
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22C light Iconclass 22C2 artificial light Iconclass 22C8 shadow Iconclass 25HH landscapes - HH - ideal landscapes Iconclass 25I city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions Iconclass 25I1 city-view in general; 'veduta' Iconclass 25I12 prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city Iconclass 25I13 public gardens, park Iconclass 25I14 public road Iconclass 25I141 street Iconclass 25I141(+0) street (+ variant) Iconclass 25I142 avenue, boulevard, promenade, esplanade Iconclass 25I144 square, place, circus, etc. Iconclass 31A25 postures and gestures of arms and hands Iconclass 31A2513 arm stretched sidewards Iconclass 31A252 postures and gestures of arms and hands in relation to each other Iconclass 31A2711 walking Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 41A2 interior of the house Iconclass 41A34 staircase Iconclass 41A34(+0) staircase (+ variant) Iconclass 41A341 stairwell Iconclass 41A4 decorations (interior of the house) Iconclass 41A421 curtains Iconclass 43A422 triumphal arch Iconclass 46C1113 stepping stones Iconclass 48C1633 Ionic order ~ architecture Iconclass 48C1634 Corinthian order ~ architecture Iconclass 48C24 piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture Iconclass 48C5142 picture within picture Iconclass |
| School / Style | Surrealist AAT |
| Paul Delvaux (Fonds Richard de Moor). - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] |
| D'Ensor à Magritte dans les collections du Musée de Gand (exposition Lodève, Musée de Lodève-Hôtel du Cardinal de Fleury, 19 novembre 2004 - 27 février 2005) / Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Helke Lauwaert, Bruno Fornari. - Lodève : Musée de Lodève, 2004 ; Milano : Mazzotta, 2004 (p. 275-277, cat. 76) |
| Paul Delvaux : De bronnen van het oeuvre / Laura Neve. - Tielt : Uitgeverij Lannoo, 2010 |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 127 (ill.)) |
| Paul Delvaux : Paseo por el amor y la muerte (exposición Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 24.02 - 07.06.2015) / Laura Neve, José Jiménez, Olivier Cousinou. - Madrid : Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2015 |
| Belgische schone : Ensor tot Magritte ; Hoogtepunten uit de verzameling van het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Laren, Singer Laren, 16.06 - 30.08.2015) / Johan De Smet, Jan Rudolph De Lorm. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2015 ; Laren : Singer Laren, 2015 ; Heule : Uitgeverij Snoeck, 2015 (cat. 66 (ill. p. 91)) |
| Last Year in Marienbad (Alain Resnais) : A Film as Art (Exhibition Bremen, Kunsthalle, 14.11.2015 - 13.03.2016 ; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum, 08.09.2016 - 27.11.2016) / Christoph Grunenberg, Eva Fischer-Hausdorf, Vito Acconci, Stefanie Diekmann, Michael Glasmeier. - Bremen : Kunsthalle Bremen, 2015 |
| Antwerpen - Brugge - Gent : De musea en hun kunstschatten van Van Eyck tot Magritte ; ontdek het rijke erfgoed in drie Vlaamse steden ; de Vlaamse Kunstcollectie / Geert Souvereyns, Till-Holger Borchert, Paul Vandenbroeck. - Dijon : Éditions Faton, 2007 (p. 94 (ill.)) |
| Brune - Blonde : la chevelure féminine dans l'art et le cinéma (exposition Paris, Cinémathèque française, 06.10.2010 - 16.01.2011) / Alain Bergala, Anne Marquez, Alice Anderson, Bernard Benoliel, Emmanuèle Bernheim. - Paris : Skira, 2010 |
| Het sterrenalfabet van E.L.T. Mesens : Dada & Surrealisme in Brussel, Parijs & Londen (tentoonstelling Mu.Zee-Kunstmuseum aan zee, 06.07 - 17.11.2013) / Phillip Van den Bossche, Erich Weiss, Anouck Clissen, Christiane Geurts-Krauss, Virginie Devillez, Nele Bernheim. - Oostende : Mu.ZEE, 2013 |
| Paul Delvaux : Le rêveur éveillé (exposition Marseille, Musée Cantini, 05.06 - 21.09.2014) / Georges Banu, Olivier Cousinou, Laura Neve, Régine Rémon, Baldine Saint Girons, Gaëtane Warzée. - Marseille : Musée Cantini, 2014 |
| Last Year in Marienbad (Alain Resnais) : A Film as Art (Exhibition Bremen, Kunsthalle, 14.11.2015 - 13.03.2016 ; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum, 08.09.2016 - 27.11.2016) / Christoph Grunenberg, Eva Fischer-Hausdorf, Vito Acconci, Stefanie Diekmann, Michael Glasmeier. - Bremen : Kunsthalle Bremen, 2015 |
| Last Year in Marienbad : A Film as Art = Loni V Marienbadu : Film Jako Umení (Exhibition Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum, 08.09.2016 - 27.11.2016) / Zuzana Kosarová, Tomás Pospiszyl. - Prague : Galerie Rudolfinum, 2016 |
| Paul Delvaux : Maître du rêve (exposition Évian, Palais Lumière, 01.07 - 01.10.2017) / William Saadé, Denis Laoureux, Laura Neve, Pierre Ghêne, Claire Leblanc. - Paris : Somogy éditions d'art, 2017 ; Évian : Palais Lumière, 2017 (p. 206-207) |
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