Salvador Dalí - Modern & Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 21, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Ralf Michler and Lutz W. Löpsinger 440-47

  • Catalogue Essay

    Titles include: Hippocrates; Louis Pasteur; Pierre Curie; Marie Curie; Jonas Salk; Enrico Fermi; Albert Schweitzer and Alexander Fleming.

  • Artist Biography

    Salvador Dalí

    Spanish • 1904 - 1989

    Salvador Dalí was perhaps the most broadly known member of the Surrealist movement of the early twentieth century. Heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud, the avant-garde style explored consciousness and dream-like states through exaggerated landscapes and bizarre or grotesque imagery. Using the means of painting, sculpture, printmaking, film and literature, Dalí explored these ideas with a meticulous hand and inventive wit. 

    Although known for his role in Surrealism, Dalí was also a seminal example of celebrity showmanship and the cult of personality, a phenomenon that dominates popular culture today. Always a colorful and flamboyant presence with his signature cape, wide-eyed expression and trademark upturned waxed mustache, Dalí was a master of self-promotion and spectacle.

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Médecine et Science portfolio

1970
The complete set of eight drypoints in colors, on Arches paper, with full margins,
all I. 6 7/8 x 5 in. (17.5 x 12.7 cm);
all S. 13 x 9 7/8 in. (33 x 25.1 cm)

all signed and numbered 18/125 in pencil (there were also 30 on Japanese nacré in Roman numerals and a few artist's proofs), published by Werbungs und Commerz Union Anstalt, the colors slightly attenuated, light-staining, occasional pale foxmarks in the margins (one with a foxmark at the lower left platemark), otherwise generally all in good condition, all framed, accompanied by original orange linen covered portfolio.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $6,250

Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York