Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Robert Descharnes, numbered d 2738 and dated Vendredi 27 juin 2003.
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Flesh wheel barrow
Details
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Flesh wheel barrow
signed with the monogram 'Gala Dali' (lower right); titled 'Flesh wheel barrow' and inscribed 'Typical reverie' of "Slumber with a Key"' (upper centre); inscribed and signed with the initials 'ce genre d'himages peuvent etre inclus dans un genre de himages hipnogogiques [... illegible] elles on une esthetique tout à fait propre S.D.' (alongside left edge); inscribed 'instantane' (alongside right edge); with the 'Museo Perrot-Moore, Cadaquès' stamp (upper left)
pen and ink on paper
5¾ x 3½ in. (14.9 x 9 cm.)
Executed circa 1947
Flesh wheel barrow
signed with the monogram 'Gala Dali' (lower right); titled 'Flesh wheel barrow' and inscribed 'Typical reverie' of "Slumber with a Key"' (upper centre); inscribed and signed with the initials 'ce genre d'himages peuvent etre inclus dans un genre de himages hipnogogiques [... illegible] elles on une esthetique tout à fait propre S.D.' (alongside left edge); inscribed 'instantane' (alongside right edge); with the 'Museo Perrot-Moore, Cadaquès' stamp (upper left)
pen and ink on paper
5¾ x 3½ in. (14.9 x 9 cm.)
Executed circa 1947
Provenance
Collection Perrot-Moore, Cadaquès.
Literature
S. Dalí, 50 Secrets of magic Craftmanship, New York, 1948 (illustrated p. 36).
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium