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DALI Drawing Spanish Surrealism 1962

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DALI Drawing Spanish Surrealism 1962
<B>DALI</B><BR><BR>SALVADOR DALI<BR>1904 - Figueras - 1989 <BR><BR>Etude de Buste de Femme et Portrait de Jeune Garcon - Circa 1962 <BR>Original Double sided Stamped Signed Color Pencil Drawing<BR><BR>Title : Etude de Buste de Femme et Portrait de Jeune Garcon. <BR><BR>Technique : Original Double sided color pencil drawing with white Gouache on Velin (wove) paper. <BR><BR>Paper size :32 X 37 cm / 12.6 X 14.6 inch. <BR><BR>Additional Information : This work is an ORIGINAL double sided pencil Drawing by Salvador Dali.<BR>It is stamped signed with the Collection Perrot Moore ink stamp in the lower right corner.<BR>1. On the front side there is a drawing of a nude torso in color pencil and a portrait of a boy in pencil.<BR>2. On The backside there is a pencil drawing of a woman portrait.<BR>The work was painted in circa 1962.<BR>This drawing belonged to the Perrot Moore collection which was the worlds largest private collection of original Dali works.<BR>The collection was displayed in the Perrot-Moore Museum in Cadaques, Spain.<BR>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.<BR>John Moore, i.e "Le Capitaine" first met Dall in 1956 when he was working with film producer and director Alexander Korda in Rome.<BR>The two became friends. In 1960 Dali employed Moore as his personal secretary and, from 1965, as his business manager. <BR>Together with Dali's wife, Gala, they traveled regularly to New York for the winter, Paris for the spring, and Cadaqus, in northern Spain, for the summer.<BR>The work is accompanied with a photo certificate of authenticity from Mr. Robert P. Descharnes, who is the only worldwide expert of Dali works.<BR>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.<BR>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. <BR><BR>Provenance :1. Photo Certificate of Authenticity by Robert P. Descharnes from 27 June 2003.<BR>Refrence d'archives: d 3658<BR>2. The Perrot-Moore Collection, Museum Perrot-Moore, Cadaques, Spain. <BR><BR>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.<DIV style='color:#D00000'><b><u>Note to all Online Bidders:</u></b>

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