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Property from a Private Collection, New York

Salvador Dalí

Le Cannibalisme des objets

Auction Closed

March 5, 04:45 PM GMT

Estimate

180,000 - 250,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, New York

Salvador Dalí 

1904 - 1989


Le Cannibalisme des objets 

signed Salvador Dalí and dated 1936 (center left) 

pen and ink and wash on board

107 by 80 cm. 42 ⅛ by 31 ¼ in. 

Framed: 133.3 by 106 cm. 52½ by 41¾ in.

Executed in 1936. 


Nicolas and Olivier Descharnes have kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Georges Hugnet, France

Galerie Rive Droite, Paris (acquired by 1961)

Acquired by 1971 by the present owner

Besançon, Palais Granvelle, Surrealisme et précurseurs, 1961, no. 69, p. 30

Albert Reynolds Morse, Salvador Dalí, Notes on the Paintings in Our Collection (Student Edition), Cleveland, 1973, p. 152 (titled Bureaucratic Cannibalism)