Salvador Dalí - Modern & Contemporary Editions New York Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Ralf Michler and Lutz W. Löpsinger 440-447

  • Catalogue Essay

    Including: 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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Medicine et Science portfolio

1970
The complete set of eight drypoints in colors, on wove paper, with full margins,
all I. 6 3/4 x 5 in (17.1 x 12.7 cm);
all S. 13 x 10 in (33 x 25.4 cm)

all signed and numbered 19/125 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, pale light-staining, occasional pale foxmarks and soft creases, otherwise all in very good condition, all framed, with original orange linen-covered folder.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $6,875

Modern & Contemporary Editions

Editions
25 January 2012
New York