Salvador Dalí - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, June 8, 2016 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 9 June 2016

  • Provenance

    Ateliers Rigal, Paris
    Private Collection, France

  • Literature

    see Ralf Michler and Lutz W. Löpsinger 813

  • Catalogue Essay

    This work is registered in the Archives Descharnes under number D-5612 (a certificate has been issued and is available for purchase from the Archives Descharnes)

  • 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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Salvador Dalí

Le Téléphone, for Hommage à Leonardo da Vinci (American Inventions), (The Telephone, for Homage to Leonardo da Vinci (American Inventions))

1975
Drypoint with extensive hand-colouring in gouache, on BFK Rives paper, with full margins,
I. 50.5 x 36.2 cm (19 7/8 x 14 1/4 in.)
S. 75.1 x 56.3 cm (29 5/8 x 22 1/8 in.)
signed and inscribed 'Bon a tirer' in pencil (the 'good to print' impression, aside from 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 upper image and left margin, and evidence of erased pencil annotations in the lower image, printed by Atelier Rigals, Paris, inscribed 'Epreuve rehaussée à la main par S. Dali pour essais couleurs en BAT - Epreuve faisant partie de notre collection' by Denise Rigal in pencil on the reverse, unframed.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 ♠

Sold for £6,875

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 9 June 2016