DALÍ SALVADOR Small archive

Sale 2143 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 19,200

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Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 10,000

DALÍ, SALVADOR. Small archive once belonging to friends Maria and Jaume Miravitlles, containing an Inscribed book with large pen drawing, a Signed postcard, and a small origingal pen sketch. Late 1950s

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large double-page inscription with pen drawing of don quixote with Sancho Panza in background, with wanderer figure and small landscape, dated 1957 postcard Signed by Dalí two small ink sketches, one of a bespectacled man in a suit; another of a man's face with clockface numbers drawn around its perimeter and his mustache as the minute and hour hands, lettering on verso indicating that it may have been cut from a larger sheet 4 Dalí exhibition cards from New York galleries, including Carstairs, Knoedler, National Gallery, Smithsonian, and Bignou printed invitation from Dalí and Maurice Sandoz for a champagne buffet at the Hotel Ambassador mentioning an artistic event in connection with the upcoming Prince Rainier-Grace Kelly wedding [1956] a group of 17 photographs of Dalí's work used in the Bignou exhibition brochure and for a Carstairs gallery catalogue small group of magazine articles about Dalí, a few written by Miravittles.
Jaume Miravittles was a childhood friend of Dalí. He was involved in the Spanish Civil War and was active in writing, film production, and arts promotion. As the General Secretary of the left-wing Esquerra Party, he helped photographer Robert Capa obtain permits to photograph Barcelona. Miravittles became a Catalan refugee, moved to the United States in the late 1950s, and helped promote Dalí's work through galleries and the press.