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Lot Closed

October 15, 02:30 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Salvador Dalí

1904 - 1989


Le cabinet anthropomorphique

inscribed Dalí, numbered 268/330 and with the foundry mark FONERIA MIBROSA BARCELONA

bronze

length: 59.5 cm. 23½ in.

Conceived in plaster in 1973; this example cast in bronze at a later date by the Mibrosa Foundry, Barcelona. This work is number 268 from a numbered edition of 330.

Art Now Gallery, Gothenburg

Private Collection, Tokyo (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above in 2022 by the present owner

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

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

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

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

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

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