Lot 99
  • 99

Salvador Dalí

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Salvador Dalí
  • Illustration pour la Biblia Sacra (la Sainte Bible), Rizzoli, Roma (1967), vol. I, p. 105
  • signed Dali and dated 1964 (lower left)
  • gouache, watercolour, India ink and ink on paper
  • 19 3/4 x 13 1/2 in.

Provenance

Private collection, Italy
Private collection, Faenza (acquired from the above in the 1960s)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2016

Condition

Executed on white wove paper, not laid down, hinged with tape to the overmount along the upper edge. The right and lower edges are deckled. The sheet is undulating, consistent with the application of media. There are some remnants of adhesive on the upper edge of the verso. This work is in very good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work relates to a print serie illustrated in Field, Albert, The Official Catalog of Works of Salvador Dalí, The Salvador Dalí Archives, New York, 1996, nr.cl 69-03-1-07, p. 203.