Salvador Dalí - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 17, 2017 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Ralf Michler and Lutz Löpsinger 641, 645-46, 650-52

  • Catalogue Essay

    Including: Latecomer from the Last Planet; Planetary and Scatological Vision; The Unicorn Laser Disintegrates the Horns of Cosmic Rhinoceroses; The Caduceus of Mars Nourished by Jupiter's Ball of Fire; Saturnian Giraffe and The Blood of Yin and Yang

  • 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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La Conquête du Cosmos II (Conquest of the Cosmos II)

1974
The complete set of six drypoint and lithographs with embossing in colors, on Arches and Rives BFK paper, with full margins, contained in the original dark blue velvet-covered portfolio.
all I. 29 3/4 x 22 in. (75.6 x 55.9 cm)
all S. 39 1/4 x 27 1/2 in. (99.7 x 69.9 cm)

All signed and numbered LX/CLXXXXV in pencil, additionally signed by Jean Lavigne (there were also 195 on Arches and 195 proofs on Arches and Rives BFK paper), published by Jean Lavigne, Paris, two framed.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $20,000

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New York Auction 17 October 2017