Live Auction 2312Impressionist/Modern Works on Paper Featuring Property from the Collection of Mrs Sidney F. Brody
Christie’s roundel
Lot 256

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Le songe d'un alchemiste ou L'arbre de vie

Closed5 May 2010

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Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Le songe d'un alchemiste ou L'arbre de vie
signed 'Dalí' (lower right) and inscribed 'ERMES TRIMEGISTRE' (upper right)
gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper
29 5/8 x 22½ in. (75.2 x 57.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1974-1975

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 2 October 1991, lot 79.
Anon. (acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie's, New York, 9 November 2000, lot 470.
Silverstate Fine Art, Reno (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005.

Specialist note

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

This gouache is one of the original maquettes for the Alchimie des Philosophes suite of lithographs (Field, no. 75-12; Michler and Löpsinjer, nos. 835-844), published in 1976.