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Art, Architecture and Fine Press
Lot 171

DALI, SALVADOR. 1904-1989.
DECHARNES, ROBERT. 1926-2014.
The World of Salvador Dali. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.

24 April – 4 May 2023, 12:00 EDT
Online, New York

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DALI, SALVADOR. 1904-1989.

DECHARNES, ROBERT. 1926-2014. The World of Salvador Dali. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
4to. With original design and inscription by Dali to artist Georgette Owens across 2 pages (front flyleaf and half-title). Publisher's cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Jacket heavily chipped, with old tape repairs. Autograph letter from Owens attesting to Dali having personally inscribed and decorated the book insert, along with a typed and signed note recalling her meeting Salvador Dali, and a reproduction of a signed photograph of Dali with Owens.

DALI SIGNATURE WITH PAINTED "SWIRL" DESIGN, inscribed in felt-tip marker: "For Georgette / Hommage de Dali", with a partial outline of a figure in felt-tip marker emerging on the far left from a swirling pattern in orange watercolor. Owens describes meeting Dali at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, where he asked her to pose for him as Medusa, because of her long red hair. An unusual, hand-decorated inscription by Dali, with an interesting first-hand provenance.

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