
Property from The Latner Family Collection
Vénus de Milo aux tiroirs
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from The Latner Family Collection
Salvador Dalí
1904 - 1989
Vénus de Milo aux tiroirs
inscribed Dalí and numbered 5/5 (on the base)
painted bronze with ermine buttons
height: 39 in. 99.1 cm.
Conceived in plaster in 1936; this example cast in bronze from 1964 by the Susse foundry, Paris in an edition of 6 plus 4 artist’s proofs.
Nicolas and Olivier Descharnes have kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Brook Street Gallery, London
Acquired from the above in 1969 by the present owner
Springfield, Massachusetts, The Museum of Fine Arts and Calgary, Alberta, The Glenbow Museum, Modern European Masterpieces from the Envoy and Latner Family Collection, 1977-80
Osaka, Daimaru Museum Umeda; Hiroshima, Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo, Isetan Museum and Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Retrospective Salvador Dalí, 1982, no. 75, illustrated in color
William S. Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art, New York, 1968, no. 203, p. 234, illustration of another example
Max Gérard, ed., Dalí, Paris, 1968, no. 148, illustration in color of another example
Carlton Lake, In Quest of Dalí, New York, 1969, pp. 73-74
José Pierre, An Illustrated Dictionary of Surrealism, London, 1974, p. 45, illustration of another example
Sarane Alexandrian, Dalí, Paris, 1974, p. 9, illustration of another example
Luis Romero, Tout Dalí en un visage, Paris, 1975, no. 292, p. 231, illustration of another example; p. 356
Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dalí, New York, 1976, no. 146, p. 164, illustration of another example
Patrick Waldberg, Michel Sanouillet and Robert Lebel, Dada Surréalisme, Paris, 1981, p. 253, illustration in color of another example; p. 336
Robert Descharnes, Dalí, l'oeuvre et l'homme, Lausanne, 1984, p. 199, illustration in color of another example
Franco Passoni, Reynolds Morse and Albert Field, Dalí nella terza Dimensione, Milan, 1986, p. 23, illustration of another example
Conroy Maddox, Salvador Dalí, Excentricité et Génie, Cologne, 1988, p. 66, illustration of another example
Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, l'oeuvre peint, vol. I, Cologne, 1994, no. 628, p. 279, illustration in color of another example
Robert and Nicolas Descharnes, Dalí: The Hard and the Soft, Sculptures & Objects, Azay-le-Rideau, 2004, no. 61, p. 33, illustration in color of another example; p. 280
Françoise Lechien, Dalí, Dalí!, Brussels, 2004, p. 64, illustration in color of another example
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