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Lot 39 JULIANS PARK, HERTFORDSHIRE

SALVADOR DALÍ (1904-1989)

Tête de saint Jean

Closed31 December 2025

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GBP 12,000–18,000

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SALVADOR DALÍ (1904-1989)
Tête de saint Jean
signed, dated and inscribed 'Tete de Saint Jean Dalí / "Port Lligat" Figueres Joan Figueras modello 1950' (lower centre)
sanguine crayon and pen and ink on paper
20 ¾ x 14 7⁄8 in. (52.5 x 38.7 cm.)
Drawn in 1950

The Lefevre Gallery [Alex Reid and Lefevre], London (no. 6079).
Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, by whom probably acquired from the above, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note


Photographs preserved in the private albums of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie immortalise holidays in the 1930s that Audrey Field (as she was then known) enjoyed with Salvador and Gala Dali, as well as Coco Chanel, demonstrating their friendship and her ease in such artistic circles. A particularly evocative page from Audrey's albums, commemorating a holiday at La Pausa in April 1938, includes a surrealist sketch by Dali and two sketched portraits of Audrey by Christian 'Bébé' Bérard alongside the signatures of his lover Boris Kochno, Coco Chanel, Misia and José-Maria Sert, Maria Ruspoli Hugo and several others.