![Phases of the Moon I by Paul Delvaux, 1939. Oil on canvas, 55 x 63”. Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Jules Verne was always at the center of Delvaux’s ideas. Delvaux said:
My overriding passion was the books of Jules Verne. […] I was completely fascinated by the engraving of Riou showing Otto Lidenbrock the wise geologist from Journey to the Centre of the Earth. I reproduced this for the first time in 1939 in the Phases de la Lune I (Phases of the Moon I).1
The man in the back leading the nude women á la the Pied Piper is Delvaux himself.
Carels, Guy and Charles van Deun, Paul Delvaux: his life, (Saint-Idesbald, Belgium: Paul Delvaux Foundation, 2004) 32. ↩](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/surrealism/9607402928/1/tumblr_lqrir7TVL21qzse0l)
Phases of the Moon I by Paul Delvaux, 1939. Oil on canvas, 55 x 63”. Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Jules Verne was always at the center of Delvaux’s ideas. Delvaux said:
My overriding passion was the books of Jules Verne. […] I was completely fascinated by the engraving of Riou showing Otto Lidenbrock the wise geologist from Journey to the Centre of the Earth. I reproduced this for the first time in 1939 in the Phases de la Lune I (Phases of the Moon I).1
The man in the back leading the nude women á la the Pied Piper is Delvaux himself.
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Carels, Guy and Charles van Deun, Paul Delvaux: his life, (Saint-Idesbald, Belgium: Paul Delvaux Foundation, 2004) 32. ↩
