Mar 10, 2022 - Sale 2597

Sale 2597 - Lot 425

Price Realized: $ 10,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
SALVADOR DALÍ
Woman with a Head of Roses.

Bronze and plastic illuminated with light bulbs and electrical plug, 1981. 828x520x336 mm; 32 5/8x20 1/2x13 1/4 inches (including base). Signed back of shoulder, and numbered 19/99 below proper left foot. Cast by Bonvicini Foundry, Verona. Published by Galerie Art 204, Paris. Descharnes 684.

Provenance: The publisher, William Gelender, Paris; thence by descent to current owner, private collection, New York.

This sculpture was inspired by Dalí's same-titled oil of 1935. Descharnes notes that this sculpture was produced in three sizes: the small size with an edition of 350, the medium with an edition of 99, and the large (in two patinas) with an edition 12.