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SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989)

Lot 23
09.11.2022 19:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 4 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 838985
Lot 23 | SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989)

Le spectre de Vermeer

signed and indistinctly dated ‘Salvador Dalí’ (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

8 7/8 x 6 3/8 in. (22.3 x 16.1 cm.)

Painted circa 1934





Provenance

Julien Levy Gallery, New York (1934).

Josephine Boardman Crane, New York.

Louise Crane, New York (by descent from the above); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 13 May 1998, lot 306.

Private collection (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 November 2007, lot 53.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

Ninety-Three Oils by Salvador Dalí: 1917-1970, Cleveland, 1973, p. 157 (illustrated).

Salvador Dalí... A Panorama of his Art, Cleveland, 1974, p. 157.

R. Descharnes and G. Néret, Salvador Dalí, The Paintings, Cologne, 1994, vol. I, p. 223, no. 500 (illustrated).

R. Hughes, The Portable Dalí, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 140 (illustrated in color; illustrated in color again on the frontispiece).

M.A. Roglán and S. DeMaria, eds., Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929-1936, Dallas, 2018, p. 46 (illustrated in color, p. 47, fig. 37).

M. Aguer, Salvador Dalí: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (www.salvador-dali.org), no. 365 (illustrated in color).



Exhibited

New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Paintings by Salvador Dalí, November-December 1934, no. 13 (titled Masquerader, Intoxicated by the Limpid Atmosphere).

Venice, Palazzo Grassi and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dalí, September 2004-May 2005, p. 237, no. 142 (illustrated in color).



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Artist:Salvador Dalí (1904 - 1989)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art, Surrealism
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe, Spain
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