Chaussures

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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Chaussures
signed and dated 'Dalí 1948' (lower centre)
watercolour and ink on paper
13½ x 19 5/8in. (34.3 x 50cm.)
Executed in 1948

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Lot Essay

The authenticity of the present work has been confirmed by Robert Descharnes in a fax dated Paris, samedi 12 mai 2001.

This flamboyant collection of extravagant shoes was conceived by Dalí for the costumes and set designs of Shakespeare's As you like it, directed by Luchino Visconti in 1948 at the Eliseo Theater in Rome.

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