Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

Grand opéra

Details

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Grand opéra
signed and dated 'Dalí 1957' (lower left)
oil on canvas
Diameter: 36 5/8 in. (93 cm.)
Painted in 1957

Provenance

Billy Rose, New York (acquired from the artist).
Alexandre Collection, New York.
Galerie de l'Elysée (Alex Maguy), Paris.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 1988, lot 409.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 1997, lot 408.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

R. Descharnes and G. Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1946-1989, Cologne, 1994, vol. II, p. 767, no. 1108 (illustrated in color, p. 494).

Exhibited

St. Moritz, Galerie Alex Maguy, Exposition prestige, date unknown.
Paris, Galerie Alex Maguy, Alex Maguy présente sept tableaux de Dalí, May-June 1973 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

In 1944, Dalí was commissioned by the Broadway producer and American theatrical showman Billy Rose to paint seven decorative panels for the Ziegfeld theater that would depict the seven lively arts. After a fire in his Westchester home destroyed all of the paintings, Rose asked Dalí to paint replacements, of which the present work is one.

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