The first time i encountered a large canvas was at the Haags Gemeentemuseum. It was hanging in one of the stairways of the museum and I must have been 15 years of age. The surrealistic scene with woman in white dresses and nude figures impressed me and it was one of my favorite paintings in the museum . ….until I learned it was removed(sold?) because it was not the painting which was important for the museums collection, the reason …… the museum hardly had any surreal paintings. I never understood this because at one time it was added to the collection and the painting was important enough to be on show for some decades. Where it is now ….i do not know….but for me it was one of the most important Delvaux paintings I encountered in all these decades of museum visits.
I always remember this painting when I encounter publications by Delvaux and I now can offer 2 additional Seventies Delvaux publications.
