Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

Le songe d'un alchimiste (L'arbre de vie)

Details

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Le songe d'un alchimiste (L'arbre de vie)
signed 'Dalí' (lower right) and inscribed 'ERMES TRIMEGISTRE' (upper right)
gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper
29½ x 22¼ in. (74.9 x 56.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1974-1975

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 2 October 1991, lot 79.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Lot Essay

This work is recorded in the archives of Robert Descharnes, Paris.

This watercolor is one of the original maquettes for the Alchimie des Philosophes suite of lithographs (Field, no. 75-12; Michler and Löpsinjer, nos. 835-844), published in 1976.

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