Salvador Dalí

John-Peter Moore, Cadaquès
Sale: Artcurial, Paris, July 1, 2003, lot 218
Sale: Artcurial, Paris, February 22, 2006, lot 204
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt

Heidelberg, Ausstellung Schlob-Heidelberg (& travelling in Austria, Germany and Switzerland), Salvador Dalí, Bilder, Zeichnungen, Objekte, eine Ausstellung des Museu Perrot-Moore, Cadaquès, 1981-82, no. 26 or no. 27, illustrated in the catalogue
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Dalí en Argentina, 1986, illustrated in the catalogue
Sao Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Dalí no Brasil, 1986, illustrated in the catalogue
Toulouse, Réfectoire des Jacobins, Salvador Dalí, Huiles, Dessins, Sculptures, 1983-84, illustrated in the catalogue
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006, illustrated in the catalogue p. 27

Photographs are mounted on cardboard. All collage elements are intact and stable. There are a few scattered thin lines of minor cracks to the photographs only visible under close inspection in rackling light. There is a small vertical area of minor discolouration, possiby original, to the lower part of the right edge. There is a tiny spot of paint shrinkage in the blue pigment towards the centre of the right edge. There are some small dots of surface abrasion to the cardboard along the upper and right edges. This work is in good condition.
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This work is executed on a photograph of the painting Le Sommeil, 1937, with collage elements from another photograph taken during a happening under the direction of Dalí in the studio of the photographer Djon Milli in New York.