About This Artwork

Paul Delvaux
Belgian, 1897–1994

The Awakening of the Forest, 1939

Oil on canvas
67 x 88 3/4 in. (170.2 x 225.4 cm)
none
Joseph Winterbotham Collection, 1991.290

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paul Delvaux, February 1940, no. 1.

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paul Delvaux, December 1944–January 1945, no. 9.

Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, April 1925, no. 49.

Paris, Grand Palais, Peintres de l’imaginaire, Symbolistes et surréalistes belges, February–April 1972, no. 86 (ill.).

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Paul Delvaux, April–June 1973, no. 18 (ill.).

Knokke-Heist, Casino, Paul Delvaux, June–September 1973, no. 11 (ill.).

Paris, Galerie Isy Brachot, Paul Delvaux, November 1991–February 7, 1992.

Publication History

M. Fryns, “Plus-value spectaculaire pour les Belges,” Les Beaux-Arts (May 1, 1959) no. 854, p. 4.

Paul Aloise de Bock, Paul Delvaux (Brussels, 1967), p. 290, pl. 36.

A. Fermigier, “Exposition. Explorateurs de l’imaginaire. Des peintres que l’injustice de l’histoire et les frontiers culturelles nous avaient longtemps un peu dissimulés,” Le Nouvel Observateur (February 1972), no. 379, p. 45.

José Vovelle, Le Surrealisme en Belgique, (Brussels, 1972), p. 270.

P. A. Touttain, “Du Voyage au Centre de la Terre aux Phases de la Lune (A propos d’une letter de Paul Delvaux),” Cashier de l’Herne (1974) no. 25, pp. 105 and 107.

Michel Butor, Jean Clair and Suzanne Houbart-Wilkin, Delvaux : Catalogue de l’Oeuvre peint (Brusssels, 1975), no. 99, p. 184 and pp. 78–80 (ill).

Ownership History

Camille Goemans, Brussels, by April 1959. Mme. G. Plouvier-Warland, Antwerp, 1959-possibly 1982. Purchased by Art Institute, 1991.