Live Auction 7564Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Lot 607

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

Athena

Closed5 February 2008

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GBP 132,500

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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Athena
signed with the monogram and dated '1965' (lower centre)
black ball-point pen and watercolour on Japan paper
26¾ x 20½ in. (68 x 52 cm.)
Executed in 1965

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1997, lot 244.
Gallery Edition Sonet/Gunnar Bergström.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

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

The present work is the original drawing for the print Athene, published in 1965 in the portfolio Mythologie.