“Sleeping Venus” by Paul Delvaux
Artist: Paul Delvaux (Belgium)
Title: Sleeping Venus
Year: 1944
Installation view at: Tate Modern, London
Photo Credits: Barbara Picci
“Delvaux’s painting combines classical elements with a troubling atmosphere. Set against a night sky, the town, with its temples lined with horses’ heads, is populated with female nudes, a skeleton and a dressmakers dummy. Delvaux painted it in Brussels during the Second World War, while the city was being bombed…”
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Categories: Arte & curiosità dal mondo, Opere
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