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Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
SALVADOR DALÍ La Chiave.
Pen and sepia ink on paper, 1960. 340x420 mm; 13 3/8x16 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in pen and sepia ink, lower right recto, and signed in pen and blue ink, verso.
With a photograph authentication signed by Mara Albaretto, Turin; a photograph authentication from Il Torchio Gallery, Milan, dated November 11, 1997; and a photograph authentication by Albert Field, New York, dated January 12, 1998.
Born into an encouraging, well-to-do family, Dalí (1904-1989) was able to attend a specialized art school at an early age continuing through to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. He focused his early studies on Cubism and Dadaism, and was influenced by Picasso and Miró. Dalí fused the impact of these modern masters among other classical influences including Raphael, Bronzino, Vermeer and Velázquez in various reoccurring themes throughout his career, centered on his extraordinary talent as a draftsman, to create his own hyper-realistic, personal style under the rubric of Surrealism.
La Chiave shows Dalí at the pinnacle of his career, in a masterful blend of both modern and classical influences, his expert draftsmanship of the figure and his eccentric imagination and creativity revealed through the perspective of the composition, coined a Dalinian Landscape. In the most recognizable of these landscapes, The Persistence of Memory, oil, 1931, now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Dalí painted a barren, desert-like composition with melting watches.
