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Le Télégraphe (The Telegraph), for Hommage à Leonardo da Vinci (American Inventions)
1975
Drypoint with extensive hand-colouring in watercolour, on Arches paper, with full margins.
I. 36.5 x 50.5 cm (14 3/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
S. 56.3 x 76.2 cm (22 1/8 x 30 in.)
Signed and inscribed 'Bon à tirer' in pencil (the 'good to print' impression before the edition of 450 and 60 artist's proofs on Arches paper, published by Editions de Francony/Editions Graphiques Internationales), with further pencil annotations in the centre of the plate and in all four margins, printed by Atelier Rigals, Paris, inscribed 'Epreuve pour essais couleurs au BAT par Salvador Dalí. Epreuve faisant partie de notre collection' by Denise Rigal in pencil on the reverse, unframed.
Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 ♠
Sold for £12,500