Posted on 02/08/2018 11:37:13 AM PST by nickcarraway
Two rediscovered Dalí paintings up for sale for first time
Two rediscovered masterpieces by Salvador Dalí will go under the hammer for the first time later this month.
Both works were sold directly to an Argentine noblewoman, the Countess de Cuevas de Vera by the artist in the 1930s and have remained in the family’s private collection ever since.
But now the pair are to be sold at auction by London’s Sotheby’s in the Surrealist Art Evening Sale on February 28th.
Tota Cueva de Vera on the porch of her home. Photo: John Phillips / Sotheby's
The Countess, known to all as Tota, divided her time between Argentina and Europe became a great friend and patron to the artists of the day including Dali, Picasso, Cocteau, Giacometti, Max Ernst, Le Corbusier, Man Ray as well as the Spanish surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
The two artworks that are offered on sale are characteristic of Dalís early Surrealist style.
“Painted in 1931, Gradiva is a jewel-like composition that unites Dalí’s unique painterly vision with the technical virtuosity characteristic of his early Surrealist art,” explains the Sotherby’s catalogue.
“Maison pour érotomane (circa 1932) also dates from the height of Dalí’s Surrealism and depicts a Catalan landscape, its rocks metamorphosing in front of the view’s eyes into a fantastical, dream-like image, dominated by two entities.
“The one on the left appears to be a horse rising from the ground, its extremities seeming to transform into a cello and a car. Two spear-like shapes penetrate the form on the right, which in turn appears to be an intangible, yet somewhat anthropomorphic rock. It was such hallucinatory compositions, giving a visual manifestation to the realm of the subconscious, that so impressed Sigmund Freud, who first met the artist in 1939.”
Both have an estimated guide price of £1,200,000-1,800,000.
Well, Hello Dali!
Have always found his work to be ugly.
The melting clock one is pretty cool
I was walking along the shore one day and I saw one of those things. By the time I reached for my camera, it flew away.
His pre-surrealism work is lovely.
I actually own a minor work of his, “Elijah Ascends in the Chariot of Fire.”
Contemplated it over many a scotch.
Rediscovered, eh? I guess they just forgot about these. And yet, the persistence of memory brings old things back to us, in a surreal kind of way.
Agree.
That looks nothing like a real Dali.......its a real fake.
Problem is Dali was signing blank canvases by the hundreds before he died.
So anyone can have an authentc igned Dali-—but that doesnt necessariy mean he painted it.
Persistence of Money...................
Why would he do that?
Dali was old and senile......he got involved with some shysters in the art world——there’s so much fakery in that world.
He hought he was securing hs artistic legacy......and leaving a bundle to his heirs.
I’ve been to the museum in St. Pete twice. I was stunned by the size of several of his works. I’m not fond of the surreal style, but some of his other paintings are incredible.
I’m afraid I will miss the auction because my time piece is melting.
I wonder what drugs he was taking?
Excellent Dali museum in St. Petersburg, Florida - probably has more of his works than his “official” museum in Spain.
I never knew Argentina had an aristocracy. Must make them unique in Latin America as most are democracies without any hereditary nobility or royalty...at least not officially, anyway.
Yes it does. I have books full of plates of Dali paintings that look just like that.
Ditto on everything
No he signed several thousand arches papers for lithographs.
They were used to print a ton of mainly his works regarding Don Quhote (sp.?). They were authentic Dali lithographs but were “afters” effectively signed after his death.
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