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ANDRE DELFAU 1915-2000 oil painting.
A large French cubist oil on canvas depicting nude girls in a Paris street. Circa 1950s. Delfau painted scene sets and costumes for the Opera in Paris and also worked in India, Burma and Japan. This beautiful example has not been restored. This work probably depicts a scene of girls from a Paris brothel. A most unusual painting, quite striking, Not as abstract as much of his work.
Title: “Ladies of the night”
Medium: Oil on original canvas
Provenance: Private French collection
Size: c. 24 x 29 inches unframed
Condition: Unlined and unrestored
André Delfau specialised in painting dance and the theatre and also produced a number of stage sets and costumes for the Opéra in Paris and the Théâtre de l’Odéon. He also worked in Morocco, India, Burma and Japan.
His dancing, acrobatic, cavorting Harlequins are developed in arabesque movements.
Auction Records
Paris, 22 March 1982: Sleeping Beauty (17¼ × 21¼ ins/44 × 54 cm) FRF 8,000; Moroccan Hammam (gouache, 17¼ × 21¼ ins/44 × 54 cm) FRF 5,000
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