Salvador Dalí

Les Simoniaques

Auction Closed

March 3, 05:01 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Ireland

Salvador Dalí

1904 - 1989

Les Simoniaques

signed Dalí and dated 1951 (lower centre)

watercolour, pen and ink and pencil on paper

42 by 29.2cm., 16½ by 11½in.

Framed: 78.5 by 65cm., 30⅞ by 25⅝in.

Executed in 1951.

Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, 12th May 1999, lot 448

Russeck Gallery, Palm Beach (purchased at the above sale)

Private Collection (acquired from the above circa 1999. Sold: Christie’s, New York, 5th May 2005, lot 158)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Robert Descharnes & Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, The Paintings, Cologne, 1995, vol. II, no. 996, illustrated in colour p. 449