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Property from an Important Private Collection, United States

Salvador Dalí

Les Murs de Babylone

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May 14, 03:44 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection, United States

Salvador Dalí

1904 - 1989

Les Murs de Babylone


Oil on canvas

10 ½ by 30 ¼ in. (26.7 by 77 cm)

Framed: 14 ¼ by 33 ¾ in. (36.2 by 85.7 cm)

Painted in 1954. 

Cécile Éluard, Paris (a gift from the artist in 1982)
Carstairs Gallery, New York
Sale: Christie's, New York, November 10, 1987, lot 64
Private Collection, Europe
Acquired from the above in 2015
Zurich, Kunsthaus & Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Salvador Dalí 1904-1989: Retrospektive, 1989, no. 253, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Robert Descharnes, Dalí, L'Homme et l'oeuvre, Lausanne, 1984, n.n., illustrated in color p. 347
Robert Descharnes & Gilles Neret, Salvador Dalí 1904 - 1989, The Paintings, 1946-1989, vol. II, Cologne, 1994, no. 1061, illustrated in color p. 473