Artist Birthdays September 23 – PAUL DELVAUX
PAUL DELVAUX (September 23, 1897 – July 20, 1994)
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Nationality: Belgian
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Field: Painting, printmaking
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Art Movement: Surrealism
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ARTiFact: He left his first wife after a chance meeting with his first real love, Anne-Marie De Martelaere (nicknamed Tam) – they would eventually marry.
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Artist Quote: “Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.”
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Notable Artwork (shown below): The Great Sirens, 1947.
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