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Salvador Dalí

Untitled (Le Pain et le vin)

Lot Closed

November 19, 06:33 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Salvador Dalí

1904 - 1989

Untitled (Le Pain et le vin)


Inscribed Dalí; dated Le 1er Mars 1970 and stamped Dalí Sterlé oeuvre originale Sterlé Joaillier, 364 Rue St. Honoré Paris (on the underside) 

18k Gold, plique-a-jour enamel, polychrome enamel and rock crystal lamp

Height: 22 1/2 in. (57.2 cm)

7 kilograms; 5,275 grams of 18k Gold

Conceived in 1965 and executed by Sterlé, Paris on March 1, 1970. 

Mafalda Marouf Davis, Egypt (and sold: Bonduelle-Lancry Scp, Corbeil-Essones, October 10, 1997, lot 123)
Private Collection, Seattle (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the estate of the above by the present owner
Laurette L. R. Simon, "Salvador Dalí: le diable divin" in L'Officiel de la mode, no. 653, 1979, Paris, illustrated in color n.p. 
Robert & Nicolas Descharnes, Dalí, Sculptures & Objects, The Hard and the Soft, Spells for the Magic of Form, Paris, 2003, no. 208, illustrated p. 89