Modern Discoveries

Salvador Dalí

Le Cabinet anthropomorphique

VAT standard rateArtist's Resale Right

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Salvador Dalí

1904 - 1989

Le Cabinet anthropomorphique

inscribed Dalí, numbered 174/330-A, stamped STERLING and with the foundry mark FONERIA MIBROSA BARCELONA

sterling silver

length: 21.5 cm. 8½ in.

Conceived in plaster in 1973; this example cast in silver at a later date by the Mibrosa Foundry, Barcelona. This work is number 174 from a numbered edition of 330.

Franco Passoni, Reynolds Morse and Albert Field, Dali nella terza dimensione, Milan, 1986, n.n., p. 79, another larger bronze version illustrated in colour

Karen von Maur, Salvador Dalí, Stuttgart, 1989, p. 388, pl. 298, another larger bronze version illustrated in colour

The Stratton Foundation, ed., Dalí, Milan, 1990, no. 37, p. 99, another larger bronze version illustrated in colour

Salvador Dalí, Illustrateur et sculpteur, Lausanne, 1992, no. 25, p. 77, another larger bronze version illustrated in colour

Beniamino Levi, The Dalí Universe, London, 2000, pp. 80-81, another larger bronze version illustrated in colour

Robert Descharnes and Nicolas Descharnes, Dalí. Le dur et le mou, sortilège et magie des formes, Paris, 2004, nos. 641-2, p. 258, other bronze versions illustrated in colour

Françoise Lechien, Dalí, Dalí! ou l'éclosion apothéosique d'un sculpteur, Brussels, 2004, n.n., p. 70, another larger bronze version illustrated in colour