Lot 200
  • 200

Salvador Dalí

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Salvador Dalí
  • Buste à tiroir (Invitation to a Dalí retrospective at The Lefevre Gallery, London)
  • Signed Dalí (center left)
  • Pen and ink on paper
  • 8 3/4 by 11 in.
  • 22.2 by 28.1 cm

Provenance

Dr. T.J. Honeyman, Glasgow & London (acquired from the artist in 1936)
Thence by descent 

Literature

Dr. T.J. Honeyman, Art and Audacity, London, 1971, p. 212, illustrated p. 152
Gilles Neret, Dalí, Cologne, 2002, illustrated p. 45

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is fixed to the mount along the edges. Some faint media stains and a pencil inscription in another hand are visible around the perimeter of the sheet when work is unframed. Apart from two faint flattened creases running parallel to the lower and right edges which are not visible when and some light time-darkening, this work is in excellent original condition.
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