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This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Robert Descharnes, numbered D-3803 and dated Paris, vendredi 23 avril 2004. Please note that in the certificate Robert Descharnes dates this work 1966.
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L'obélisque de la connaissance
Details
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
L'obélisque de la connaissance
signed and dated 'Dalí 1968' (centre, in the oval of the sculpture); dedicated, signed and dated 'A Isidro Bea Dalí 1968' (lower left)
watercolour, pen and India Ink, collage and pencil on paper
19 x 6½ in. (48.5 x 16.5 cm.)
Executed in 1968
L'obélisque de la connaissance
signed and dated 'Dalí 1968' (centre, in the oval of the sculpture); dedicated, signed and dated 'A Isidro Bea Dalí 1968' (lower left)
watercolour, pen and India Ink, collage and pencil on paper
19 x 6½ in. (48.5 x 16.5 cm.)
Executed in 1968
Provenance
Musée de l'Athénée, Geneva.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Exhibited
Geneva, Musée de l'Athénée, Dalí, July - September 1982, no. 11 (illustrated).
Special notice
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