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...