Lot 323
  • 323

SALVADOR DALÍ | Flor Dalí (étude)

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Salvador Dalí
  • Flor Dalí (étude)
  • signed with the artist's monogram (lower centre) and dated 1967 by another hand
  • gouache, watercolour and pen and ink on paper
  • 57 by 37.5cm., 22 1/2 by 14 3/4 in.
  • Executed in 1967.

Provenance

Ernest Sentis Roldan, Madrid (acquired directly from the artist)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Hamburg, Thomas Levy Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 1977-78, no. 44-58, illustrated in colour n.p.

Condition

Executed on thick cream wove paper, not laid down. The upper and lower edges are deckled. There are remnants of old framer's tape along the edges in places. The sheet is very lightly time-stained and there are some minor handling marks along the lower left edge and a thumbprint visible along the left of the upper edge. This work is in overall very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Nicolas & Olivier Descharnes.