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Property of a Private East Coast Collection

Salvador Dalí

Étude pour une toile de fond pour Tristan Fou (Acte I)

Auction Closed

May 18, 01:03 AM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private East Coast Collection

Salvador Dalí

1904 - 1989

Étude pour une toile de fond pour Tristan Fou (Acte I)


inscribed 1 Acto - Tristan Loco (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

10 ½ by 19 in. 26.8 by 48.2 cm.

Executed in 1944. 


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美國東岸私人收藏

薩爾瓦多・達利

1904 - 1989年

《(第一幕)〈瘋狂的崔斯坦〉背幕習作》


款識:藝術家題款1 Acto - Tristan Loco(內框)

油彩畫布

10 ½ x 19 英寸;26.8 x 48.2 公分

1944年作

Cécile Éluard, Paris (the artist's stepdaughter)
Private Collection, New York (acquired by 1965)
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired in 1989)
Sotheby's New York, 6 May 2015, lot 385 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner 

Distribucions d'art surrealista, Distribucions d'Art Surrealista, Barcelona, 1983, p. 13
Robert Descharnes, Dalí, The Work The Man, New York, 1984, p. 275, illustrated in color 
Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí 1904-1989, The Paintings, vol. I, Cologne, 1994, no. 833, p. 369, illustrated in color 
Idoia Murga Castro, Pintura en danza. Los artistas españoles y el ballet: 1916-1962, Madrid, 2012, p. 384, illustrated in color
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, ed., "Project for 'Mad Tristan'," Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Salvador Dalí, no. P581, https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/artwork/catalogue-raisonne-paintings/1944/581/project-for-mad-tristan, accessed 13 April 2022