SALVADOR DALÍ (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Les deux paysans dans la fosse, fossoyeurs d’Ophélia, l’un brandit le crâne de Yorick constitué par les chiffres ‘4640/777’ à Hamlet (Acte V, scène 1)
signed with the monogram and dated ‘GALA DALI 1967’ (lower left)
watercolor and pen and ink on paper
15 1/8 x 11 1/4 in. (38.5 x 28.5 cm.)
Nicolas and Olivier Descharnes have confirmed the authenticity of this work.
PROVENANCE: Acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent to private collection, UK. Private collection, USA.
PRICE: on request
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.
