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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Lot 181 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

Projet de costume de Hymen pour la pièce de théâtre 'As you like it' de William Shakespeare

Closed19 June 2019

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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Projet de costume de Hymen pour la pièce de théâtre 'As you like it' de William Shakespeare
signed and dated 'Dalí 1948' (lower right)
gouache, watercolour and pen and India ink on paper
19 ¼ x 13 ¼ in. (49 x 33.7 cm.)
Executed in 1948

Wallin Eriksson Konsthandel, Gothenburg.
Private collection, Sweden, by whom acquired from the above in the early 1970s, and thence by descent.
Acquired by the present owner in 2017.

Specialist note


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

After being introduced by Coco Chanel in Rome in 1948, Luchino Visconti and Salvador Dalí collaborated on a ballet based on William Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’. Visconti directed the production and Dalí designed the costumes. This design in particular shows how the artist delighted in creating colourful, diaphanous spectacles which perfectly encompass his tenet that art should be used to infuse all aspects of life with theatricality and magic.