Victor Delhez was one of seven children. He studied at Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1916-1918 and at the University of Leuven from 1918-1923, graduating as an agronomist with chemistry as his primary subject. Delhez began exhibiting caricatures and surrealist work while in college. Taking up a role as manager of his family’s car company, he continued his artistic interests, publishing a series of prints in 1925.In 1925, Delhez’s parents died in a road accident, and he subsequently moved to Argentina, working as a draughtsman and architect, and contractor, in Buenos Aires from 1926-1933. He then moved to Bolivia, before moving back to Argentina in 1940. He settled in Chacras de Coria and took a post as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, National University of Cuyo. While in Bolivia, Delhez produced a set of forty illustrations for the Gospels, and twenty-one for Lord Dunsany’s “A Dreamer’s Tales”, while in correspondence with the author.

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