Salvador Dalí
Hommage à Newton
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Salvador Dalí
1904 - 1989
Hommage à Newton
inscribed Dalí, numbered 1/8 and with the foundry mark C. Valsuani cire perdue
bronze
height (including base): 131.5 cm. 51¾ in.
Conceived and cast in 1969 by the Valsuani Foundry, Paris. This work is number 1 from an edition of 8 plus 4 artist’s proofs and a further unnumbered cast outside this edition.
Nicolas and Olivier Descharnes have kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Formerly in the collection of André-François Petit.
André-François Petit, Paris
Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1997, lot 220 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
A. Reynolds Morse, Albert Field and Robert P. Descharnes, Dalí, Geneva, 1980, p. 42, another version illustrated
L. Amiel, ed., "Hommage a Dalí," XXème siècle, Paris, 1980, p. 142, another cast illustrated
Franco Passoni, Reynolds Morse and Albert Field, Dalí nella terza dimensione, Milan, 1985, p. 45, another cast illustrated in colour
The Stratton Foundation for the Cultural Arts, Dalí, Milan, 1989, no. 15, p. 55, another cast illustrated in colour
Paris, Galerie André-François Petit, Salvador Dalí, La Gare de Perpignan accompagnée d’une petite rétrospective, 1977-78, n.n., n.p., illustrated
Tokyo, The Ueno Roal Museum; Osaka, The National Museum of Art; Hakone, Open-Air Museum; Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art and Hiroshima, Prefectural Museum of Art, Sculptures by Master Painters, 1979, no. 94, n.p., illustrated
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