Lot 35
  • 35

Salvador Dalí

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
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Description

  • Salvador Dalí
  • La Prodigalité, illustration pour le Purgatoire, Chant 22 pour l'ouvrage de Dante illustré par Salvador Dalí, La Divine Comédie (1959-1963)
  • signé Dalí et daté 1951 (en bas au centre dans un cartouche)
  • gouache, aquarelle, plume et encre sépia sur papier
  • 42,7 x 30,6 cm ; 16 3/4 x 12 in.

Provenance

Joseph Foret, Paris
Acquis auprès du précèdent par le propriétaire actuel

Exhibited

Paris, Musée Galliera, 100 aquarelles pour la Divine comédie de Dante Alighieri, 1960, no. 56, mentionné p. 44

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, fixed to the overmount along all four edges. There are some artist's pinholes to the four corners and some slight light staining along the edges. Apart from some minor dots of discoloration towards lower edge and some slight marks on the reverse along the edges, possible from old tape, this work remains in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed 'Dalí' and dated '1951' (toward the lower centre); gouache, watercolour, pen and ink on paper. Executed in 1951.