No connection to server
Theme auctions online
Barbie and friends E1136
Auction:
Chinese Works of Art F512
Auction:
Curated Timepieces – December F530
Auction:
A Designer's World E1138
Auction:
International Modernists F601
Auction:
Milić od Mačve 7 paintings F592
Auction:
Helsinki Design Sale F612
Auction:
Helsinki Spring Sale F613
Auction:
Live auctions
Contemporary Art & Design 662
Auction: April 15−16, 2025
Important Timepieces 663
Auction: April 15, 2025
Modern Art & Design 664
Auction: May 20−21, 2025
Important Spring Sale 665
Auction: June 11−13, 2025
610
1351771

Salvador Dalí

(Spain, 1904-1989)
Estimate
400 000 - 500 000 SEK
35 700 - 44 700 EUR
36 300 - 45 400 USD
Hammer price
Unsold
Covered by droit de suite

By law, the buyer will pay an artist fee for this work of art. This fee is 5% of the hammer price, or less. For more information about this law:

Sweden: BUS
Finland: Kuvasto

Purchasing info
Image rights

The artworks in this database are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without the permission of the rights holders. The artworks are reproduced in this database with a license from Bildupphovsrätt.

For condition report contact specialist
Amanda Wahrgren
Stockholm
Amanda Wahrgren
Specialist Modern Art, Prints
+46 (0)702 53 14 89
Salvador Dalí
(Spain, 1904-1989)

"Toreador, connu comme Arlequin"

Signed Dali. Executed around 1966. Mixed media on paper, gouache and indian ink, 55.5 x 37.5 cm. A certificate from Archives Descharnes, dated 14 June 2018 is included.

Provenance

Private collection, Sweden.
Stockholms Auktionsverk, Modern + Contemporary Art & Design, 20 November, 2018, cat. no. 290.

Literature

Archive Descharnes, the work is cataloged under no d 6021.

More information

Få personer har ett så säreget universum som Salvador Dali där en fantasirik mix av galenskap utförd med teknisk perfektion och exakthet regerar. Som konstnär var Dali en sann renässansmänniska som verkade inom konst, film, litteratur, teater och mode. Hans betydelse för modernismens, och framför allt surrealismens, uppkomst och utveckling går inte att bortse ifrån. Dali var även en av de första konstnärerna på 1900-talet som på allvar förstod massmediernas och populärpressens påverkan på samhället och kulturen.

Dalí växte upp i Figueras i norra Katalonien. Under dadaismens storhetstid i Paris började den unge Dalí vid Konstakademien i Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, men blev snart utkastad därifrån efter att ha ifrågasatt sina lärare och initierat ett uppror bland eleverna. Vid samma tid träffade han Federico Garcia Lorca och Luis Buñuel som kom att influera honom och Dali begav sig till Paris var han lärde känna hela det unga avantgardet som Pablo Picasso, surrealisterna André Breton, Paul Eluard, René Magritte och Max Ernst och Dali anslöt sig därmed officiellt till surrealistgruppen.

I det aktuella katalognumret möter vi en stående figur, är det en toreador eller en harlequin? Båda motiven är återkommande i Dalis universum.

Artist

Salvador Dalí, was born in 1904 in Spain and died in 1989. He is one of the most popular artists of the 20th century and one of our most noted surrealists. Dalí's early paintings show the influence of Cubism, Pittura Metafisica and novelty. He was also largely inspired by classical masters. In 1927 Dalí came to Paris, and in 1929 he was included in the surrealist group with André Bréton as the leader. Dalí was very much influenced by Freud's paranoid-critical method, which means that everything is interpreted symbolically.

Few people have such a peculiar universe as Salvador Dali, where an imaginative mix of madness performed with technical perfection and accuracy reigns. As an artist, Dalí was a true renaissance-man who worked in art, film, literature, theatre and fashion. All these different strings and his popularity still today show that his art expressed something that no one else could transfer from thought to work.

Read more