That work shows two rows of women seated along an alleyway overlooking the sea and is entitled The Village of the Mermaids.
An Annunciation scene by this artist replaces Gabriel with a blue-robed woman as Mary lies lazily on a sofa. In another work by this painter, two women sit in a blue Persepolis-like landscape scattered with Doric and Corinthian columns. A Lisel Mueller poem wonders if the title figures in a work by this artist are "prostitutes with chaste, identical faces" before declaring that "it is 1942; it is Europe, and nothing fits." That work shows two rows of women seated along an alleyway overlooking the sea and is entitled The Village of the Mermaids. The titular goddess lays on a golden recliner in the middle of a classical city square as various suppliants raise their arms to the sky in this man's Sleeping Venus. His motifs include skeletons engaged in everyday actions as well as (*) pale, dreamlike, and mostly-nude women who wander through streets lined with classical architecture. For 10 points, name this man most famous for being a Belgian surrealist not named Magritte.
An Annunciation scene by this artist replaces Gabriel with a blue-robed woman as Mary lies lazily on a sofa.
Paul Delvaux