Lot 85
  • 85

Salvador Dalí

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Salvador Dalí
  • Le Cabinet anthropomorphique
  • inscrit Dali, numéroté 224/330 et porte la marque du fondeur Foneria Mibrosa Barcelona
  • bronze
  • 30.9 x 59,5 x 22,5 cm ; 12 1/8 x 23 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.

Provenance

Acquis auprès du fondeur Mibrosa par le propriétaire actuel en 2011

Literature

Beniamino Levi, The Dalí Universe, Londres, 2000, la grande version reproduite pp. 80 & 81
Robert & Nicolas Descharnes, Dalí. Le dur et le mou, sortilège et magie des formes, Paris, 2004, no. 683, une autre épreuve reproduite p. 266
Françoise Lechien, Dalí, Dalí! ou l'éclosion apothéosique d'un sculpteur, Bruxelles, 2004, la grande version reproduite pp. 70 & 99

Condition

The bronze is sound. There is an attractive brown patina. There is some build-up of dust in the recesses with a tiny dent on the upper model's right leg, probably inherent to the casting process. Apart from some scattered dots of discoloration, this work is in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed 'Dalí', numbered '224/330' and stamped with the foundry mark 'Fondeur Mibrosa Barcelona', bronze. Conceived in plaster in 1973 and cast in bronze in a numbered edition of 330 by the Mibrosa foundry, Barcelona.