Paul Delvaux * (Antheit 1897–1994 Furnes) Les Baigneuses (the bathers), 1946, signed P. Delvaux, inscribed: fait chez le sculpteur G. Grard, St. Idesbald 7–10–46, ink and pencil on brown-paper laid down on cardboard, 57 x 78 cm, framed This work is accompanied by a certificate of the Paul Delvaux Foundation. Provenance: Gift of Claude Spaak (1903–1990) to the parents of the former owner Thence by decent Binoche et Giquello, 10 June 2016, lot 106 acquired from the above by the present owner – European Private Collection Claude Spaak: Writer and playwright, was above all a discerning collector. He was friends with René Magritte, Domenico Gnoli and particularly Paul Delvaux who frequently illustrated his works (Le Pays de Miroirs, contes et nouvelles, Paris, 1962)