Salvador Dalí oil sells for $1.825M at Sotheby's London

February 7, 2013/Robin Rile

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

Yang i Yin empordanesos (Ampurdanese Yang and Yin)

Price Realized £1,161,250 ($1,825,485)

Estimate: £500,000 – £700,000 ($786,000 – $1,100,400)

Sale Information

Sale 1103
The Art Of The Surreal
6 February 2013
London, King Street

Lot Description

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Yang i Yin empordanesos (Ampurdanese Yang and Yin)
oil on canvas
25½ x 21 1/8 in. (65 x 53.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1934

ProvenanceMarquis de Cuevas and Mary Rockefeller de Cuevas, New York.
Private collection, New York.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Private collection, France, by whom acquired from the above.

Pre-Lot TextTHE PROPERTY OF A LADY

Literature

R. Descharnes, Dalí, L’oeuvre et l’homme, Lausanne, 1984, p. 195 (illustrated).
R. Descharnes & G. Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, vol. II, Cologne, 2004, no. 586, p. 755 (illustrated vol. I, p. 262).
V. Santamaria de Mingo, El Pensament de Salvador Dalí en el llindar dels anys trenta, Castellón de la Plana, 2005, no. 23, p. 313 (illustrated p. 216).

Exhibited

Tokyo, Prince Hotel Gallery, Salvador Dalí, 1964, no. 24, (illustrated).