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The Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Collection

Salvador Dalí

Personnage aux tiroirs

Estimate

700,000 - 1,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Collection

Salvador Dalí

(1904 - 1989)


Personnage aux tiroirs

signed Dalí (upper right)

brush and ink and oil on canvas

70 ⅝ by 20 ½ in.   179.5 by 52.2 cm.

Executed circa 1934-38.

Cécile Eluard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist) 

Lionel Prejger, Paris 

Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in 1968) 

Sylvester Stallone, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in 1985) 

Waddington Galleries, London 

Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above) 

Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1999, lot 184 (consigned by the above) 

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 2002, lot 57 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Surrealism, 1983, no. 31, illustrated (titled Standing Figure and dated circa 1934)

New York, Arnold Herstand & Co., Surrealism: From Paris to New York, 1990, n.p., illustrated (titled Standing Figure and dated 1934)

Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret, Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, The Paintings, vol. I, Cologne, 1994, no. 510, p. 227, illustrated in color (titled L’homme aux tiroirs and dated circa 1934)