May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DALÍ, SALVADOR. Julien Levy Gallery catalogue and souvenir card. Souvenir card: Dalí Paints the "Invisible Straight from Nature." Souvenir catalogue Catalog designed by Dalí for his exhibition at Levy, 15 December 1936 - 15 January 1937. Single cardboard sheet, 250x200 mm. Cover illustration shows a Surrealist female figure with metal snap nipples on movable cardboard breasts each revealing an accordion fold strip containing 6 reproductions of Dali's work. Reverse is labeled "Souvenir-Catalogue" and lists 21 works exhibited and also mentions 12 drawings shown, edges rubbed, 2-inch crease to left edge over lettering, right breast flap torn around snap * Catalogue is Salvador Dalí. 1939. Julien Levy Gallery 15 East 57 New York. Illustrated with montage composition showing the layers of "The Endless Enigma," including six glassine overlays printed in red, 2 halftones and 6 line drawings. Text by Dalí ("Dali, Dali!"), and statements by Picasso, Breton, Francesc Pujols, Julien Levy, Stefan Zweig, James Thrall Soby, M. Pazkiewichz, and Dalí. 4 pages, thin folio (single fold), illustrated with a full-cover reproduction of Dalí's "Debris of an Automobile Giving Birth to a Blind Horse Biting a Telephone," original red cloth taped spine, scattered soiling and creasing, staples rusted. New York, 1936; 1939