Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Robert and Nicolas Descharnes.
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La persistance de la mémoire
Details
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
La persistance de la mémoire
signed, inscribed and numbered 'Dalí E.A. 1/3 FONDERIA TESCONI PIETRASANTA' (on the back of the clock face)
bronze with gold and brown patina on a marble base
Height: 75¼ in. (191 cm.)
Conceived in 1980 and executed in an edition of six plus six
La persistance de la mémoire
signed, inscribed and numbered 'Dalí E.A. 1/3 FONDERIA TESCONI PIETRASANTA' (on the back of the clock face)
bronze with gold and brown patina on a marble base
Height: 75¼ in. (191 cm.)
Conceived in 1980 and executed in an edition of six plus six
Provenance
Private collection, Milan, by whom acquired directly from the artist; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 1986, lot 251.
Private collection, Delaware, by 1992.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009.
Private collection, Delaware, by 1992.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2009.
Literature
R. & N. Descharnes, Dalí, The Hard and The Soft, Spells for the Magic of Form, Sculptures & Objects, Azay-le-Rideau, 2004, no. 632 (another cast illustrated p. 246).
Exhibited
New York, Alex Rosenberg, Salvador Dalí: Memories of Surrealism, November - December 1985.
Milan, Galleria Master, Dalí nella terza dimensione, 1986, no. 42.
Milan, Galleria Master, Dalí nella terza dimensione, 1986, no. 42.
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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