Salvador Dalí

Michèle Broutta, Paris
Private Collection, Amsterdam (acquired from the above circa 1983)
The Eton Gallery, Eton
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1993

Executed on cream card, not laid down. The work is hinged to the mount in two places on the upper edge. There are some remnants of brown mounting tape on the reverse. There are two artist's pinholes to the upper extreme edge of the work. There are two very narrow bands of staining to the left and right edges of the work, not visible when framed. The central and right collaged butterflies are slightly lifting from the sheet. Otherwise, the work is in good condition.
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The present work was executed for a production of Serge Lifar's ballet Les Vendangeurs with music by Henri Sauguet, to be presented by the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, which was never performed. For another design for the ballet, see Le char de Bacchus, dated 1953, in: Robert Descharnes, Dalí, l'Œuvre et l'Homme, Paris, 1984, p. 329.