Lot 182
  • 182

Salvador Dalí

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Salvador Dalí
  • Combat Hellénique
  • signed Dalí and dated 1949 (towards lower left)
  • gouache, brush and ink, watercolour and pencil on card
  • 34 by 60.3cm., 13 1/4 by 23 3/4 in.

Provenance

Art Concorde, Paris (Edouard Weiss)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1980s

Condition

Executed on card, not laid down. The extreme edges of both recto and verso are concealed by the overmount. There are pin holes to all four corners and some areas of paint loss to the extreme left edge and to the upper and lower left and lower right corners. The colours are bright and this work is in overall good condition. Some colour testing and studio annotations are visible on the verso with some studio marks.
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