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Salvador Dalí

Portrait de Gala Galarina

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Salvador Dalí

1904 - 1989


Portrait de Gala Galarina

signed Gala Salvador Dalí, dated 1941 and inscribed Le dessin est la probité de l'art Ingres (lower right)

pencil on paper

63.6 by 50 cm. 25 by 19⅝ in.

Executed in 1941.


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 1964)

The Edward James Foundation, West Dean (acquired by 1980)

Christie's, New York, 14 November 1984, lot 281 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Draeger, ed., Dalí, Paris, 1968, p. 38, illustrated (detail) (titled Galarina and dated 1945)

Max Gerard, Dalí… Dalí… Dalí…, Paris, 1974, no. 22, illustrated (detail)

Robert Descharnes, Dalí. L’Œuvre et l'homme, Lausanne, 1984, p. 296, illustrated (titled Portrait de Gala)

Los Angeles, Municipal Art Gallery, An Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by Salvador Dalí, 1964, no. 40, n.p. (titled Nude Portrait of Gala and dated 1949)

New York, Gallery of Modern Art including the Huntington Hartford Collection, Salvador Dalí 1910-1965, 1965-66, n.n., p. 5 (titled Nude Drawing of Gala and dated 1949)

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Dalí, avec la collection de Edward F. W. James, 1970-71, no. 128, n.p., illustrated

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Salvador Dalí, Bruikleen uit de colletie Edward F.W. James, 1972, no. 14, n.p., illustrated

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (on long-term loan until at least 1980)

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980, 1979-80, no. 528, p. 90, illustrated (titled Portrait of Gala)

London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 1980, no. 196, p. 29 (titled Portrait of Gala)