Lot 136
  • 136

Salvador Dalí

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 EUR
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Description

  • Salvador Dalí
  • Le spectre du sex-appeal, épreuve d'essai pour une illustration pour l'ouvrage de Lautréamont Les Chants du Maldoror
  • signed Dalí later circa 1964 (along the left edge)
  • monotype on ink on paper
  • 5 1/8 x 7 in.

Provenance

André-François Petit, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Condition

Executed on cream laid paper, not laid down, sandwiched between mount and overmount. The lower and right edges are deckled. There is brown tape along each edge on the verso. There is a pinhole to the right part of the upper edge and another pinhole to the lower left quadrant to the right of the signature. There is an area of paper skinning towards the centre of the composition with an associated small patch of paper on the verso. There are a few faint spots of foxing in places. This work is in overall good condition.
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