Oct 04, 2012 - Sale 2288

Sale 2288 - Lot 101

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
HALSMAN, PHILIPPE (1906-1979)
"Dali Atomicus." Silver print, 14 1/4x18 3/8 inches (36.2x46.7 cm.), with Halsman's signature, title, and dates, in pencil, and his copyright hand stamp, on verso. 1948; printed 1970s
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This sublime image is an homage to suspension and Dali's famous work "Leda Atomica" (seen at right). The composition took six hours, twenty-eight jumps, three angry cats, and an unknown number of buckets of water to complete. It appeared in Life Magazine.
From the Collection of James B. Parks.