Alice au pays des merveilles

Details

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Alice au pays des merveilles
signed with the artist's monogram and dated '1968' (lower left)
oil, gouache, brush and India ink and felt-tip pen on paper
22 3/8 x 15 1/4 in. (56.9 x 38.7 cm.)
Executed in 1968

Provenance

Catherine Perrot-Moore, Cadaqués; her sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 March 1986, lot 410.
Galerie Richard, Zürich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 1986.

Exhibited

Vienna, Palais Auersperg, La collection Salvador Dalí, Perrot-Moore, 1983 (illustrated n.p.); travelling exhibition.

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Lot Essay

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

This gouache is part of the series of illustrations that Dali executed for the Maecenas Press 1969 edition of Lewis Carrol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (cf. Fornès pp. 144-147).

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