Lot 229
  • 229

Salvador Dalí

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Salvador Dalí
  • Premier essai de maison stéréoscopique, projet de couverture pour la revue Le Sauvage
  • signed Dalí, titled Premier essai de maison stéréoscopique and extensively annotated 
  • gouache, pen and ink and photographic collage on card 
  • 48.6 by 33.2cm.,19⅛ by 13in.

Provenance

A gift from the artist to the late owner

Literature

Le Sauvage, n. 34, 1st October 1976, illustrated pp. 16-17
Robert & Nicolas Descharnes, Dalí. Le dur et le mou. Sortilège et magie des formes. Sculptures & Objets, Azay-le-Rideau, 2003, no. 576, illustrated p. 227

Condition

Photograph and collage on paper laid down on card. The collage elements are securely affixed, and the card is taped to the overmount along the left, right and upper edges. There is some slight discolouration to the blue elements, but this is possibly inherent to the artist's process. The white wove element is slightly time stained. Otherwise this work is in very good condition.
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