Salvador Dalí

Horst P Horst, Vogue USA, 15 mars 1937 © Horst P. Horst, Vogue / Condé Nast PARIS - Du 6 juillet 2022 au 22 janvier 2023, le musée des Arts décoratifs met à l’honneur l’œuvre audacieuse et inspirante d’Elsa Schiaparelli, créatrice italienne, dont l’inspiration s’est nourrie d’une relation privilégiée avec les artistes du milieu de l’avant-garde parisienne des années 1920 et 1930. Près de 20 ans après la rétrospective qui lui a été consacrée en 2004, le musée a souhaité revisiter son œuvre afin de faire... [Lire la suite]

Harry Bertoia (1915-1978), A unique and substantial gong pendant, 1960s. Estimate on request. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020. LONDON.- Christie’s presents an online selling exhibition of jewellery, miniature artistic expressions by leading 20th century artists. Art to Wear is a partnership with Didier Ltd, a London-based gallery that specialises in twentieth-century artist-designed jewellery. Producing pieces to adorn the body of the wearer, artists including Salvador Dalí, Claude Lalanne, Georges... [Lire la suite]

Salvador Dalí, Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages (1937), estimate of £7,000,000 – 10,000,000. Courtesy Bonhams.  LONDON - A surrealist masterpiece by Salvador Dalí, Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages (1937), will lead Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art Sale in London on 26 March. The work, which has never before been offered at auction, comes from the collection of the Italian Modernist composer Giacinto Scelsi. It has an estimate of £7,000,000 – 10,000,000. Dalí... [Lire la suite]

London – Christie’s The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale will directly follow the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, launching ‘20th Century at Christie’s’ on 5 February 2020. The Surreal season is highlighted by René Magritte’s poetic masterpiece A la rencontre du plaisir (Towards Pleasure) (1962, estimate: £8,000,000-12,000,000), which has remained in a private collection for over 50 years and has never been offered on the market until now. A total of seven paintings by Magritte are... [Lire la suite]

Salvador Dalí, Lobster Telephone, 1938. © National Galleries of Scotland  EDINBURGH.- One of the most famous of all twentieth-century sculptures, Salvador Dalí’s Lobster Telephone (1938) has been acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland, and is set to go on display this week at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. This iconic sculpture is one of the most instantly recognisable masterpieces of Surrealism, the art movement that emerged in Paris in the 1920s, which explored the world of... [Lire la suite]

Duchamp and Dali playing chess during filming for A Soft Self-Portrait, 1966 (photograph, 21×31 cm). Photo by Robert Descharnes and Paul Averty. ©Descharnes & Descharnes sarl 2016. Archivo Fotografico Pere Vehi, Cadaques.  LONDON.- Dalí / Duchamp is the first exhibition to present the art of two of the twentieth century’s most famous artists in exclusive dialogue. Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) and Salvador Dalí (1904– 1989) are usually seen as opposites in almost every respect, yet they shared attitudes... [Lire la suite]

Medusa : Affiche. PARIS - Medusa porte un regard contemporain, et inédit, sur le bijou. Un regard qui révèle certains tabous. Le parcours s'intéresse ainsi aux frontières traditionnelles de l’art en reconsidérant les questions de l’artisanat, du décoratif, de la mode et de la culture pop. L’exposition réunit plus de 400 bijoux réalisés par des artistes, des bijoutiers contemporains, des joailliers ; mais également des pièces anonymes, plus anciennes ou non-occidentales (de la Préhistoire, du Moyen-Age...). Comme le... [Lire la suite]

Henri Matisse, Nu au coussin bleu, lithograph, 1924. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000. Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries. NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Auction Galleries’ September 22 auction of 19th & 20th Century prints and drawings in New York features a host of American and European masters spanning the past 200 years. From Manet and Renoir to Whistler and Toulouse-Lautrec, 19th century artists meet leading lights of the 20th, including Picasso, Matisse, Miró, Chagall, Braque and Dalí. Édouard... [Lire la suite]

Photo Sotheby's. Paris – Du 14 au 18 mars, Sotheby’s France révélera une sélection d’oeuvres de ses ventes printanières et estivales. Le temps d’une exposition, la maison convie amateurs et collectionneurs à découvrir les oeuvres phares des ventes qui se dérouleront à partir du 5 avril à Paris, tous départements confondus. L’exposition dévoilera une sélection d’oeuvres variées réunissant dans les salons de la galerie Charpentier pièces de mobilier, objets d’art et de collection, livres et manuscrits et... [Lire la suite]

  Salvador Dalí, Eggs on the Plate without the Plate (Oeufs sur le Plat sans le Plat),1932. Oil on canvas, 23 3/4 × 16 1/2 in. (60.3 × 41.9 cm). Collection of the Salvador Dali Museum, Inc. St. Petersburg, Florida. © 2015 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York HOUSTON, TX.- Visitors to the Menil Collection have a rare opportunity this fall to experience works from the museum’s Surrealist collection in dialogue with one of the movement’s major figures – Salvador... [Lire la suite]