Live Auction 7703Impressionist/Modern Works on Paper
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Lot 182 Property from the Del Mintz Collection

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

The World of Currier & Ives

Closed5 February 2009

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GBP 9,375

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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
The World of Currier & Ives
signed and dated 'Dalí 1971' (lower centre)
watercolour and pen and black ink, possibly on a lithographic base, on prepared thick card
29½ x 24¾ in. (75.1 x 63 cm.)
Executed in 1971

Phyllis and Sydney Lucas, New York, by whom acquired from the artist.
Silver State Fine Art, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the late owner in 2001.

Specialist note

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

This work is a preparatory drawing for the advertisement for the series of lithographs (Michler & Löpsinger nos. 1345-1350) that Dalí executed in 1971 as a tribute to Currier & Ives.