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SALVADOR DALÍ (1904-1989)

Lot 122
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Lot 122 | SALVADOR DALÍ (1904-1989)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
SALVADOR DALÍ (1904-1989)
Vénus de Milo aux tiroirs
signed and numbered 'Dalí 0/5' (on the top of the base)
painted bronze and pompoms
Height: 38 3/8 in. (97.5 cm.)
Conceived in plaster in 1936; cast in bronze in 1964 in a numbered edition of five plus one artist's proof




Provenance

Gala Dalí [the artist's wife], Pubol.
Cécile Éluard, Paris [Gala Dalí's daughter], by descent from the above.
Beadleston Gallery, New York, by 2000.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 December 2000, lot 18.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

R. Descharnes, Dalí de Gala, Lausanne, 1962, plaster version no. 165, p. 223 (illustrated pl. 165).
Exh. cat., Salvador Dalí, Tokyo, 1964, no. 125, p. 61 (illustrated).
New York, 1968, no. 67, pp. 145 & 232 (another cast illustrated p. 145).
W. S. Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art, New York, 1968, no. 203 (another version illustrated p. 234).
M. Gérard, Dalí, New York, 1968, no. 148 (another version illustrated).
C. Lake, In Quest of Dalí, Toronto, 1969, pp. 72-74 (titled 'Venus with Drawers').
S. Alexandrian, Dalí, Paris, 1974, p. 9 (another cast illustrated).
R. Descharnes, Salvador Dalí, New York, 1976, no. 146, pp. 118 & 164 (plaster version illustrated p. 164).
R. Descharnes, The World of Salvador Dalí, Lausanne, 1979, plaster version no. 165, pp. 164 & 231 (illustrated pl. 165).
Exh. cat., Salvador Dalí: rétrospective 1920-1980, Paris, 1979, no. 175, p. 233 (another cast illustrated).
P. Waldberg, M. Sanouillet & R. Lebel, Dada, Surréalisme, Paris, 1981, p. 253 (another cast illustrated).
R. Descharnes, Salvador Dalí: The Work, The Man, New York, 1984 (plaster version illustrated p. 199).
F. Passoni, R. Morse & A. Field, Dalí nella terza dimensione, Milan, 1987, p. 26 (another cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., Salvador Dalí, Stuttgart, 1989, no. 158, p. 206 (another cast illustrated).
R. Descharnes & G. Néret, Salvador Dalí: The Paintings, vol. I, 1904-1946, Cologne, 1994, no. 628, pp. 69, 276 & 279 (plaster version illustrated p. 279).
Exh. cat., D’après l’antique, Paris, 2000, plaster version no. 259, pp. 463 & 464 (illustrated p. 465).
Exh. cat., A Disarming Beauty: The Venus de Milo in 20th-Century Art, St Petersburg, Florida, 2001, no. 29, pp. 63, 65 & 83 (plaster version illustrated fig. 29, p. 66).
J. Mundy, ed., Surrealism: Desire Unbound, exh. cat., London, 2001, plaster version no. 72, pp. 97 & 329 (illustrated p. 97).
R. & N. Descharnes, Dalí: The Hard and the Soft, Spells for the Magic of Form, Sculptures & Objects, Azay-le-Rideau, 2004, no. 61, pp. 32 & 34 (plaster version illustrated p. 33).
Exh. cat., Dalí, Venice, 2004, plaster version no. 156, pp. 258 & 259 (illustrated).
D. Ades, Dalí: The Centenary Retrospective, exh. cat., London, 2004, plaster version no. 156, p. 258 (illustrated p. 259).
C. Stuckey, ‘Dalí in Duchamp-Land' in Art in America, New York, May 2005, pp. 153 & 154 (plaster version illustrated p. 154).
Art Institute of Chicago, eds., Notable acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2006, Vol. 32, p. 64 (plaster version illustrated p. 65).
Tate, eds., Salvador Dalí: An Illustrated life, London, 2007, no. 163, pp. 110 & 118 (plaster version illustrated).
Exh. Cat., Chaos & Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936, New York, 2010, pp. 142 & 143 (plaster version illustrated fig. 38, p. 142).
D. Judovitz, Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company, Minneapolis, 2010, pp. 161-64 (plaster version illustrated fig. 31, p. 163).
A. Grafton, G. W. Most, & S. Settis, eds., The Classical Tradition, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, 2010, no. 163 (plaster version illustrated).
M. Squire, The Art of the Body: Antiquity and its Legacy, New York, 2011, pp. 27, 38 & 230 (plaster version illustrated fig 15, p. 28).
J. Munro, Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish, London, 2014, no. 237, pp. 210 & 211 (plaster version illustrated p. 210).
Exh. Cat., Dalí/Duchamp, London, 2017, no. 89, p. 124 (another cast illustrated p. 125).
M. Aguer, L. Bartolomé & J. Cohen, Transgressing Venus: Dali Is Classical, Is Surrealist, Is Pop Art!, exh. cat. Figueres, 2022, pp. 11, 12, 20-26, 33 & 43 (other versions illustrated no. 2, p. 19, no. 3, p. 22, no. 4, p. 23, no. 5, p. 25, no. 1, p. 32).
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Online Catalogue Raisonné, no. OE 24 (plaster version illustrated; accessed 2024).



Exhibited

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Dalí's Optical Illusions, January – March 2000, no. 24, pp. 117 & 118 (illustrated pp. 117 & 119); this exhibition later travelled to Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, April - June 2000; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, July - October 2000.
Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Surrealism, August - October 2001, p. 184 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York, October 2015 - February 2016, p. 185 (illustrated fig. 52).
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