Salvador Dalí - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 17, 2017 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Ateliers Rigal, Paris
    Private Collection, France

  • Literature

    Ralf Michler and Lutz Löpsinger 566

  • Artist Biography

    Salvador Dalí

    Spanish • 1904 - 1989

    Salvador 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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Transfiguration

1972
Drypoint and aquatint in colors, with extensive hand-coloring, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
I. 22 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. (57.8 x 37.5 cm)
S. 29 7/8 x 22 1/8 in. (75.9 x 56.2 cm)

Signed, annotated 'B.A.T.' and 'Avec variations de Rigal' in pencil, additionally annotated 'BAT aquarellé et rehaussé à la feuille d’or faisant partie de notre collection 'Nicole Rigal' in pencil on the reverse (the good-to-print proof impression before the total edition of 430 published by Ateliers Rigal), unframed

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $20,000

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 17 October 2017