Clair de lune avec cygnes à Port Lligat

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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Clair de lune avec cygnes à Port Lligat
signed and dated 'Dalí 1952' (lower centre); with a dedication from Gala Dalí to Fleur Cowles '"If you come see me Port Lligat, I putch candle crowns on heads of swans in my harbour, Port Lligat; this my finest Dalinian greeting for you!"' (lower sheet margin)
gouache, brush and pen and blue ink and wash on paper
Image: 5¼ x 7¼ in. (13.4 x 18.5 cm.)
Sheet: 6¾ x 9 in. (17 x 23 cm.)
Executed in 1950

Provenance

A gift from the artist to the late owner circa 1955.

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.

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Lot Essay

Robert and Nicolas Descharnes have confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Fleur Cowles (1908 - 2009) began her career as a columnist for The World Telegram but is best remembered as a style icon, pioneering editor and socialite. In 1946 she married Gardner Cowles of the Cowles Publishing Empire and in 1950, she began creating her own magazine Flair, which her friends Lucian Freud and Salvador Dalí contributed to. This friendship later resulted in the publication of her biography of the artist, The Case of Salvador Dalí (Boston, 1959).

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