Published the Sunday, December 09, 2012

http://www.lunion.presse.fr/article/autres-actus/1841200-euros-pour-la-machine-a-coudre

Whereas the Pompidou Center presentation Salvador Dali, the house Artcurial has put up for auction this Tuesday, December 4 in Paris, two works of the Spanish artist. The two works are from a private collection. It is a bronze bust painted, the woman-bread, and a table made for a film project of Fritz Lang, the sewing machine.
The woman-bread, a bronze bust painted, achieved 1933 and edited in 1977, was estimated at between 450,000 and 600,000 euros. It is part of the eight copies of which one is exposed in the context of the major retrospective devoted to the painter at the Pompidou Center until March 25. The bust has not found purchaser on Tuesday evening.
Sewing Machine with umbrellas in a surreal landscape (oil and gouache) is date of 1941. The implementation was estimated between 1.6 million and two million euros. Salvador Dali has painted this table in the United States for the film “The barge of love” (Moontide, 1942) by Fritz Lang. Due to a conflict between the Fox and Fritz Lang, the director was replaced by Archie Mayo and the drawings of Dali were ultimately not used. The painter will resume his creations for the cinema in 1945 with “The House of Dr. Edwards” (Spellbound), Alfred Hitchcock, with Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman. Dali has also worked with Walt Disney for the animated film “Fantasia” (1940).  This composition of Salvador Dali was unprecedented in public sale. She had been acquired directly from the artist by its owner and presented only once to the public at a retrospective exhibition in Shanghai. One of the paradoxes and not the least among Salvador Dali, has been that it has achieved its greatest masterpieces on panels of small sizes: The persistence of the memory of 1931, does that 24 X 33 cm The Portrait of Paul Eluard of 1929, 33 x 25 cm, awarded in 2011 nearly 16,500,000 euros on the international market or well yet the spectre of Vermeer of Delft from 1934, 22 x 17 cm, awarded nearly 1,900,000 euros in 2007 and many others, Dali has su express with a thoroughness unmatched, the power of its visions on panels of modest size like the master of the gothic painting and of the Renaissance. The sewing machine, by all its qualities, both pictorial and intellectual, is part of this set of masterpieces. This gem has found buyers for the sum of 1,841,200 euros.