Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

Voiture de magiciens avec baldaquin tirée par des chevaux

Details
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Voiture de magiciens avec baldaquin tirée par des chevaux
signed and dated 'Dalí 1966' (lower right)
gouache, watercolour, sanguine and India ink on paper
15 x 11 1/4 in. (38 x 28.5 cm.)
Executed in 1966
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
M. Castells et al., Les mil i una nits de Salvador Dalí, Barcelona, 2014, p. 69 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Turin, Palazzo Bricherasio, Salvador Dalí, la vita è sogno, November 1996 - March 1997, no. 79, p. 115 (illustrated).
Bruges, Stichting Sint-Jan, Salvador Dalí, Dœken & Aquarellen, July - November 1997.
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Please note the correct medium for this lot should read:
gouache, watercolour, sanguine, ink and felt tip pen on paper

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Lot Essay

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


Throughout his career, Dalí executed illustrations for many editions of classical literature, including Don Quixotte, The Divine Comedy and Macbeth. Salvador Dalí's One Thousand and One Nights, however, commissioned from the artist by the family of the present owner in the 1960s, remained unpublished until 2014. Thus this group of works offers new and exceptional insight into Dalí's original and unique relationship with classical and literary tradition, and his constant search for an avant-garde re-interpretation of myths and iconographies.

Extremely varied in its graphic style and entrancing with its dramatic imagery, Dalí’s series of illustrations for One Thousand and One Nights shows the artist’s interpretation of central figures and events in a complex and evolving narrative that may date back in its origins to the 9th Century. The stories of Scheherazade as retold in One Thousand and One Nights include some of the most recognisable images of Arabic, Persian, Mesopotamian, Indian, and Egyptian folklore. For many hundreds of years these stories and their central characters were central to a European understanding and imagining of Arabian and Persian history and visual culture.

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