Tribute to Jules Verne 1971

Paul Delvaux made this painting, *Tribute to Jules Verne*, with oil on canvas. This painting's theatrical! Look at the way the light pools and deepens, setting the stage for these pale figures, their gaze directed elsewhere. The painting feels still, yet full of potential energy. As the artist, maybe Delvaux was thinking about the tension between dream and reality, and memory and desire. His work is an homage to imagination and escapism, like Verne’s own stories, transporting you to another time. The stillness and surreal quality remind me a little bit of de Chirico. Do you feel that uncanny atmosphere? It’s like a moment stretched out, suspended between what was and what could be. It invites us to question the nature of reality and perception. Painters are in constant conversation with one another, even across time.