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DALI Drawing Spanish Surrealism 1962

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DALI Drawing Spanish Surrealism 1962
SALVADOR DALI
1904 - Figueras - 1989

Etude de Buste de Femme et Portrait de Jeune Garcon - Circa 1962
Original Double sided Stamped Signed Color Pencil Drawing

Title : Etude de Buste de Femme et Portrait de Jeune Garcon.

Technique : Original Double sided color pencil drawing with white Gouache on Velin (wove) paper.

Paper size :32 X 37 cm / 12.6 X 14.6 inch.

Additional Information : This work is an ORIGINAL double sided pencil Drawing by Salvador Dali.
It is stamped signed with the Collection Perrot Moore ink stamp in the lower right corner.
1. On the front side there is a drawing of a nude torso in color pencil and a portrait of a boy in pencil.
2. On The backside there is a pencil drawing of a woman portrait.
The work was painted in circa 1962.
This drawing belonged to the Perrot Moore collection which was the worlds largest private collection of original Dali works.
The collection was displayed in the Perrot-Moore Museum in Cadaques, Spain.
The owner of the collection was John Peter Moore , who was a former British Army captain who worked for Salvador Dali from 1960 till 1975 and was a close friend of both Dali himself and his wife Gala.
John Moore, i.e "Le Capitaine" first met Dall in 1956 when he was working with film producer and director Alexander Korda in Rome.
The two became friends. In 1960 Dali employed Moore as his personal secretary and, from 1965, as his business manager.
Together with Dali's wife, Gala, they traveled regularly to New York for the winter, Paris for the spring, and Cadaqués, in northern Spain, for the summer.
The work is accompanied with a photo certificate of authenticity from Mr. Robert P. Descharnes, who is the only worldwide expert of Dali works.
Mr. Descharnes was entrusted by Dali with the administration of his intellectual property rights, and is the sole authority to issue certificate of authenticity concerning Dali's works.
The certificate includes two photos of the work, a detailed description, the Dali Archives reference and is hand signed by both Robert Descharnes and by the administrator of the Dali Archives, Mr. Nicolas Descharnes.

Provenance :1. Photo Certificate of Authenticity by Robert P. Descharnes from 27 June 2003.
Refrence d'archives: d 3658
2. The Perrot-Moore Collection, Museum Perrot-Moore, Cadaques, Spain.

Condition :A few stains, some paper peal in the outer backside edges (from former mating), and one faint horizontal fold in the middle visible mainly on the backside.