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La Fusée (The Rocket), for Hommage à Leonardo da Vinci (American Inventions)
1975
Drypoint with extensive hand-colouring in gouache, on BFK Rives paper, with full margins.
I. 50.5 x 36.3 cm (19 7/8 x 14 1/4 in.)
S. 75.6 x 56.8 cm (29 3/4 x 22 3/8 in.)
Signed and inscribed 'Bon à tirer' in pencil (the 'good to print' impression before the edition of 450 and 60 artist's proofs on Arches, published by Editions de Francony/Editions Graphiques Internationales), with further pencil annotations in the centre of the plate and in all four margins, printed by Atelier Rigals, Paris, inscribed 'Epreuve rehaussée à la gouache par S. Dali pour essais couleurs. Epreuve faisant partie de notre collection' by Denise Rigal in pencil on the reverse, unframed.
Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 ♠
Sold for £6,000