Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Personnage surrealiste

Details

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Personnage surrealiste
signed, dedicated and dated 'Salvador Dalí 1935 Pour Albert Skira avec l'afection de son ami' (lower right)
pen and black ink on buff paper
6 1/8 x 4¾ in. (15.5 x 12.1 cm.)
Drawn in 1935

Provenance

Albert Skira, Geneva (acquired from the artist).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 23 February 2000, lot 64.
Howard Russek Fine Art, Philadelphia (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 2000.

Lot Essay

Albert Skira (1904-1972), the first owner of this drawing, was the founder of Editions Skira in Lausanne which he established with the intent of commissioning the greatest living artists to illustrate masterpieces of literature. In 1933 Dalí signed a contract with Skira to do forty sketches for Lautrémont's Les Chants de Maldoror.

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