Paul Delvaux, Brussels, 1944
About this artwork
Following time spent on the front-line, Miller remained in Europe to document the events after the War. Her accounts were published in British and American Vogue. In November 1944 she spent several days in Brussels, where she noted that she found her “favourite modern Belgian painters in good health”. This photograph shows surrealist artist Paul Delvaux standing behind his large canvas ‘La Ville Rouge’, [The Red Town], painted from 1943-4. Miller observed that “these last months of occupation and invasion urged him to paint prisoners and skeletons.”
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artist:Lee MillerAmerican (1907 - 1977)
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title:Paul Delvaux, Brussels, 1944
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date created:1944
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materials:Black and white photograph (posthumous print)
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measurements:Paper size: 38.90 x 29.90 cm; image size: 26.50 x 25.50 cm
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credit line:Purchased with help from the Patrons of the National Galleries of Scotland 2007
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accession number:GMA 4985
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Lee Miller
Lee Miller
Miller had a most remarkable career and life. She was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, and worked as a model for Condé Nast, learning photography first through being a subject for the most important fashion photographers of her day. In 1929 she visited Paris for the second time and became the...