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Salvador Dalí
Currier & Ives: five plates
- Estimate
- $6,000 - 8,000
Lot Details
Five lithographs in colors with collage, on wove paper, the full sheets, including the title page, lacking American Trotting Horse No. I.
1971
all S. 21 1/2 x 29 7/8 in. (54.6 x 75.9 cm)
All signed in pencil and numbered 79/300, 193/250, 96/250, 107/250, 233/250, 125/250 in white or gray pencil (there was also an edition of 50 on Japon paper), published by Sidney Lucas, Phyllis Lucas Gallery (with their inkstamps on the reverse), New York all with very occasional soft handling creases (mainly visible in raking light), Flowers and Fruits with a diagonal soft crease at the upper left sheet corner. the title page and three plates framed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Including: American Trotting Horses II; Fire, Fire, Fire; American Yacht Races; Central Park, Winter, New York; Flowers and Fruits; and title page
Provenance
Literature
Salvador Dalí
Spanish | B. 1904 D. 1989Salvador Dalí was perhaps the most broadly known member of the Surrealist movement of the early twentieth century. Heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud, the avant-garde style explored consciousness and dream-like states through exaggerated landscapes and bizarre or grotesque imagery. Using the means of painting, sculpture, printmaking, film and literature, Dalí explored these ideas with a meticulous hand and inventive wit. Although known for his role in Surrealism, Dalí was also a seminal example of celebrity showmanship and the cult of personality, a phenomenon that dominates popular culture today. Always a colorful and flamboyant presence with his signature cape, wide-eyed expression and trademark upturned waxed mustache, Dalí was a master of self-promotion and spectacle.
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