Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Lot 1327

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Le gran pavon

Closed15 May 2015

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USD 245,000

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Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Le gran pavon
signed and dated 'G Dali 1979' (lower center)
oil and red and black felt-tip pens on canvas
24 x 18 1/8 in. (61 x 46 cm.)
Painted in 1979

Howard Fleisig, Florida.
Tom Wallace, New York.
Enrique Sabater, Andorra.
Brana Fine Art, Inc., Los Angeles (by 2002).
Private collection, Cincinnati (acquired from the above); sale, Christie's, New York, 7 May 2008, lot 429.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

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

"The intelligent painters are those who will be able to integrate into classicism even the wildest experiments, the most disordered and chaotic of our time...My ambition is to incorporate, to sublimate, my experiments into the great classical tradition."
-Salvador Dalí, 1964

(fig. 1) The artist, Port Lligat, circa 1960. Photograph by Gérard Thomas d’Hoste.