Surrealist painter Paul Delvaux painted his own beach fantasy in 1942. It’s called the Village of the Mermaids. The foreground tells one story, and in the distance there’s a surprise. Judith Kampfner went into the vaults of the Art Institute of Chicago to see Delvaux’s painting with curator Stephanie D’Alessandro.
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