Sale: 409 / Modern Art and Sidelines of the German Avantgarde, Dec. 06. 2013 in Munich Lot 180

 

180
Salvador Dalí
Mannequin zootropique, 1971.
Multiple
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,480
Sold:
€ 7,500 / $ 8,100

(incl. surcharge)
Mannequin zootropique. 1971.
Multiple. Bronze in colors, with collaged metal strips and plastic fly.
Verso with name, number as well as with foundry mark "Kunstguss Strehle". From an edition of 150 copies. Height ca. 84 cm (33 in).
Cast around 2000. The collage like sculpture, which contains a fly on the depicted person's cheek, a feature characteristic of Surrealism, was originally made as Christmas edition for the Vogue Magazine. [KP].

LITERATURE: Cf. Robert and Nicolas Descharnes, Dalí. The Hard and the Soft, Eccart 2004, p. 153 (with illu.).




180
Salvador Dalí
Mannequin zootropique, 1971.
Multiple
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,480
Sold:
€ 7,500 / $ 8,100

(incl. surcharge)