Antinoüs

Artist Paul Delvaux Belgian, 1897–1994

Date1958

MediumOil on plywood

Dimensions49 1/8 x 75 1/8 in. (124.8 x 190.8 cm)
Frame: 50 3/8 x 76 3/8 x 1 1/2 in. (128 x 194 x 3.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of John L. Loeb

Object numberG.62.22.3

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ProvenanceMme. Lithiby, Paris; M. Knoedler and Co., New York; John L. Loeb, New York; given to NCMA, 1962Published References"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), listed 58.

Paul-Aloïse De Bock, Paul Delvaux (Brussels: Laconti: 1967), 298, listed 298, no. 130, illus. (b-w) pl. 130.

Michel Butor, et al, Delvaux (Lausanne: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1975), discussed and illus. (b-w) 92, listed and illus. (b-w) no. 242.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 276.

Barbara Emerson, Delvaux (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1985), discussed 151, illus. (color).

Sasha M. Newman, "'Stages of Sentimental Life': The Nudes and the Interiors," in Félix Valloton (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1991), 123-167, noted 130, illus. (b-w) fig. 154.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 274.

Huston Paschal, entry for Antinoüs, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 229, illus. (color).

Huston Paschal, entry for Antinoüs, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 482, illus. (color) 483.
Exhibition HistoryAntwerp, Belgium, Meir, Salle des fêtes, "L'Art contemporain. Salon 1959," August 1-23, 1959, no. 95.

Colorado Springs, CO, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, "New Accessions USA," June 15-September 13, 1964, no. 37, illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "“a little offbeat, a little dreamy, and mysterious,” November 15, 2023-present.

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