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Salvador Dalí

Cannibalisme des objets, tête de femme avec soulier

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Salvador Dalí

1904 - 1989


Cannibalisme des objets, tête de femme avec soulier

signed Salvador Dalí and dated 1937 (lower left)

gouache, brush and pen and ink on paper

63 by 47.8 cm. 24¾ by 18¾ in. 

Executed in 1937.


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


Formerly in the collection of Edward James.

Edward James, West Dean (acquired by 1963)

Edward James Foundation, West Dean (acquired from the above by 1972)

The Mayor Gallery, London (acquired by 1983)

Robert Fraser Gallery, London

Acquired from the above on 24 October 1983 by the present owner

Robert Descharnes, Dalí. L'Œuvre et l’homme, Lausanne, 1984, p. 211, illustrated in colour (titled Cannibalisme des objets)

Sussex, Worthing Art Gallery and Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, Paintings from the Edward James Collection: Dalí, Tchelitchew, Chirico, Magritte, 1963-64, no. 20, n.p. (titled Woman with shoe in teeth and catalogued as pen and ink and tempera)

Manchester, City Art Gallery; Birmingham, City Art Museum and Gallery; Norwich, Castle Museum; Hull, Ferrens Art Gallery; Bath, Holburne of Menstrie Museum and Plymouth, City Museum of Art, Surrealist Pictures from the Edward James Collection, 1969, no. 11, n.p. (titled A woman’s head with a shoe)

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Dalí, 1970-71, no. 117, n.p., illustrated (titled Tête de femme, avec soulier)

Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Edward James Collection: Dalí, Magritte and other Surrealists, 1976, no. 17, p. 13, illustrated (titled Woman’s head and shoe); p. 8

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 1979-80, no. 169, p. 231, illustrated (titled Cannibalisme des objets)

London, The Mayor Gallery, Fifty Drawings by Salvador Dalí from the Edward James Collection, 1983