Paul Delvaux

Paul Delvaux was a prolific Belgian painter known best for his surrealist works.

Critic Marc Rombaut claims that Delvaux "maintained an intimate and privileged relationship to his childhood, which always manges to surface in his work." Delvaux became famous for his paintings featuring groups of nude women in various scenes: staring as if hypnotized; gesturing mysteriously; reclining incongruously in a train station; or wandering through classical buildings.

The women are often accompanied by skeletons, men in bowler hats, or puzzled scientists drawn from Jules Verne's stories. Delvaux would repeat variations on these themes for the rest of his long life.