Live Auction 7703Impressionist/Modern Works on Paper
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Lot 184 Property from the Del Mintz Collection

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

Rooftop, design for Spellbound

Closed5 February 2009

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GBP 31,250

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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Rooftop, design for Spellbound
signed and dated 'Dali 1944' (lower left)
watercolour, wash and brush and black ink on paper
7 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. (19.4 x 25.1 cm.)
Executed in 1944

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 study for the scenery of the dream sequence in Alfred Hitchcock's film Spellbound (1945).