Lot 316
  • 316

Salvador Dalí

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Salvador Dalí
  • Illustration pour l'article "The American City Night and Day by Dalí" du journal American Weekly du 31 mars 1935
  • Signed Salvador Dalí and dated 1935 (lower right)
  • Black crayon, pencil, ink wash and gouache on card
  • 14 3/4 by 12 1/4 in.
  • 37.4 by 31.1 cm

Provenance

Cummins Catherwood, Philadelphia (acquired directly from the artist)
Thence by descent

Literature

The American Weekly, Salvador Dalí, "The American City Night and Day by Dalí," March 31, 1935, illustrated
La Vie publique de Salvador Dalí 
(exhibition catalogue), Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1979, no. 446, illustrated p. 50

Condition

Executed on cream-colored card. The medium is well-preserved. there is a horizontal crease to the card about 1/3 of the way down the left edge, about 2 inches in length. There is some mat staining around the perimeter of the image, not visible when framed. The right and lower margins of the sheet, measuring approximately 3 inches wide, have old glue transfer staining and the sheet has a tear to the lower right corner of the margin, not visible when framed.
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