LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gouache, watercolor and pencil and India ink on card

Measurements:

23.03 in. (58.50 cm.) (height) by 28.50 in. (72.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Dalí 1949' (lower right), inscribed 'NAPELS' [sic] (lower centre)

Exhibited:

Arezzo, Museo Civico d’Arte Moderna Contemporanea, Da Picasso a Botero: Capolavori dell’arte del Novecento, March – June 2004, p. 388 (illustrated p. 91); this exhibition later travelled to Forlì, Palazzo Albertini, June – August 2004.

Literature:

J. Gunther, Taken at the Flood: The Story of Albert D. Lasker, London, 1960, p. 261.

Provenance:

Mr & Mrs Albert Davis Lasker, New York, by whom commissioned from the artist. Dr Robert F. Loeb, New York, a gift from the above. Private collection, United States, by descent from the above; sale, Christie’s, London, 3 December 1996, lot 194. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.