Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Le gran pavon

Details

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Le gran pavon
signed and dated 'G Dali 1979' (lower center)
oil and red and black felt-tip pens on canvas
24 x 18 1/8 in. (61 x 46 cm.)
Painted in 1979

Provenance

Howard Fleisig, Florida.
Tom Wallace, New York.
Enrique Sabater, Andorra.
Brana Fine Art, Inc., Los Angeles (by 2002).
Private collection, Cincinnati (acquired from the above); sale, Christie's, New York, 7 May 2008, lot 429.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

Las Vegas Art Museum, Dalí's Millenium, A Retrospective of Works Conceiving the Past, Present and... Future, March-April 2000, p. 11 (illustrated in color).
Los Angeles, Brana Fine Art, Inc., Dalí in Manhattan, April-May 2002, p. 40 (illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

Nicolas and Olivier Descharnes have confirmed the authenticity of this work.

"The intelligent painters are those who will be able to integrate into classicism even the wildest experiments, the most disordered and chaotic of our time...My ambition is to incorporate, to sublimate, my experiments into the great classical tradition."
-Salvador Dalí, 1964

(fig. 1) The artist, Port Lligat, circa 1960. Photograph by Gérard Thomas d’Hoste.

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