Study after Santiago El Grande

Details

Salvador Dalì (1904-1989)
Study after Santiago El Grande
signed 'Dalì' (lower left)
gouache, watercolour, charcoal, crayon and pencil on tracing paper
21½ x 15 7/8 in. (54.7 x 40.4 cm.)
Executed between 1957 and 1964

Provenance

Private collection, acquired directly from the artist.
Acquired from the above in 1985 by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

This work is sold with a certificate by Robert and Nicolas Descharnes. It is recorded in the Archives under no. D-2697/1053.

The present work was executed after the study for the painting Santiago El Grande, 1957 (Descharnes, no. 1113), in preparation for one of the plates in Dalí's illustrated book Don Quichotte (1957-1964).

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