Title: Night Train
Description: Night Train (Le train de nuit) is a 1947 surrealist painting by Belgian artist Paul Delvaux, famous for his paintings of female nudes. The painting is 153 x 210 centimetres and is currently housed in the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Delvaux wished "to paint boredom, sadness and the desire to get away from it all... There is this nostalgic aspect about waiting rooms where people pass by briefly before leaving... I tried to capture the beauty of the waiting room in an empty station. People are not necessary, for a station has its own life". According to the Christie's, this work is "a powerful poetic expression of the overwhelming sense of paralysis and imprisonment Delvaux was experiencing at the time":
Author(s): Paul Delvaux