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Vénus à la girafe
Details
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Vénus à la girafe
signed 'Salvador Dalí' (on the base); stamped with the foundry mark and numbered 'Bocquel Fd.EA 1/1' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 94 7/8 in. (232.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1973 and cast in an edition of eight plus one épreuve d'artiste and three épreuves hors commerce
Vénus à la girafe
signed 'Salvador Dalí' (on the base); stamped with the foundry mark and numbered 'Bocquel Fd.EA 1/1' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 94 7/8 in. (232.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1973 and cast in an edition of eight plus one épreuve d'artiste and three épreuves hors commerce
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's, Paris, 3 December 2007, lot 146.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
R. & N. Descharnes, Dalí, The Hard and The Soft, Spells for the Magic of Form, Sculptures & Objects, Azay le Rideau, 2004, no. 69 (another cast illustrated p. 37).
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
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