Lot Essay
"Like Louis XIV, Marcel Duchamp can say: I am Chess!" Salvador Dalí
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The thumb, Chessgame Hommage to Marcel Duchamp
Details
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
The thumb, Chessgame Hommage to Marcel Duchamp
each signed 'Dalí' and stamped with the silversmith's mark and numbered 'J Cooper Sterling AE/45' (underneath)
silver and gold-plated silver
the largest: 3 5/8 in. (9.1 cm.)
the smallest: 1½ in. (3.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1966-1970 from moulds of Dalí's fingers and thumbs and cast in an edition of 250 by F.J. Cooper.
The thumb, Chessgame Hommage to Marcel Duchamp
each signed 'Dalí' and stamped with the silversmith's mark and numbered 'J Cooper Sterling AE/45' (underneath)
silver and gold-plated silver
the largest: 3 5/8 in. (9.1 cm.)
the smallest: 1½ in. (3.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1966-1970 from moulds of Dalí's fingers and thumbs and cast in an edition of 250 by F.J. Cooper.
Literature
R. and N. Descharnes, Dalí, The Hard and the Soft, Sculptures and Objects, Azay le Rideau, 2004, no. 277 (another version illustrated p. 116).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
"Like Louis XIV, Marcel Duchamp can say: I am Chess!" Salvador Dalí