Étude pour la Madone de Port Lligat. 1949.
Pencil drawing.
The drawing is registered in the archive Deschares with the archive number d2600_1950. Bottom center signed. On Raffaello C.M. Fabriano wove paper (with watermark). 23.4 x 15.9 cm (9.2 x 6.2 in), size of sheet.
Rear inscribed: "Ange soulevant avec précaution / ma mer Méditerranée, pour / regarde un chien dormir a / l'ombre de". [AW].
• Sketch for the painting of the same name at Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan.

Accompanied by a confirmation issued by J. Peter Moore on April 12, 1992 and with a photo copnfirmation from Isidro Bea.
Nicolas and Olivier Descharnes confirmed this work's authenticity orally.

PROVENANCE: Collection Isidro Bea
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Salvador Dalí. Aquarelle, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, Grafik, Städtische Galerie im Fruchtkasten des Klosters Ochsenhausen, July 16 - October 3, 2000, no p. (with illu.).