Accession Number
1997/1.78

Title
L'homme lisant (Man Reading)

Artist(s)
Paul Delvaux

Object Creation Date
circa 1940

Medium & Support
pen and brown ink and grayish-brown wash on cream wove paper

Dimensions
13 in. x 15 11/16 in. ( 33 cm x 39.8 cm )

Credit Line
Gift of the Lannan Foundation in Honor of the Pelham Family

Label copy
The date assigned to this work, ca. 1940, is derived from its connection to the 1940 painting, L'homme de la rue (reproduced in Butor, p. 186)
This drawing is related to the same painting as The Loves of the Poet, displayed nearby. The figures of the two standing women in both drawings are closely associated with vegetation. Vines growing around the central figure in each work give a temporal aspect, as if, as has been suggested, the woman has been waiting for the man. Her contemplative gaze contributes to a sense of reverie.
Label copy from exhibition "Dreamscapes: The Surrealist Impulse," August 22 - October 25, 1998

Primary Object Classification
Drawing

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Figures
Surrealism
bowler
clothed
females
flowers
males
man
nudes
reading
trees
vines
women