Salvador Dalí - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, October 26, 2015 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2015

  • Literature

    Ralf Michler and Lutz Löpsinger 470-476, 78-79

  • Catalogue Essay

    Including: The Shepherd; The King's Dream; The King's Train; The Dovelike Eyes of the Bride; The Bridegroom Leaps upon the Mountains; The Beloved is as Fair as a Company of Horses; Thou art Fair, My Love, and Thy Breasts..., The Fruits of the Valley; and Return, O Shulamite.

  • 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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Salvador Dalí

Song of Songs: nine plates

1971
Nine drypoints with stencil coloring and gold gilding, on Arches paper, with full margins, folded (as issued), with title, colophon and text pages,
23 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (59.1 x 40 cm)
all signed in pencil and numbered 80 on the colophon (the edition was 250, there were also 6 on parchment and 44 on Japan paper numbered in Roman numerals), published by Leon Amiel, New York (with their blindstamp), all contained in the original blue linen-covered portfolio with decorative bronze medal stamp.

Estimate
$7,000 - 10,000 

Sold for $8,750

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2015