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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 20, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | Exquisite Corpus Evening Auction | 5 | $****** - ****** | Symbiose de la tête aux coquillages |
paintings
34.9 x 27.3 cm (13.75 x 10.75 in)
oil on canvas
signed Dalí and dated 31 (center left); signed and dated again (on the reverse)
Emilio Terry, Paris (probably acquired from the artist by 1936 and until at least 1956)
Galerie André Petit, Paris
Daniel Filipacchi, Paris
Acquired from the above by 1977 by the present owner
(possibly) Casino de Knokke le Zoute, Salvador Dalí , 1956, p. 21 (titled Personnage dans un paysage and dated 1934)
London, Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed , 1978, no. 11.6, p. 267, illustrated
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980 , 1979-80, no. 89, p. 164, illustrated in color
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes , 1999, vol. I, no. 43, p. 97, illustrated in color
Salvador Dalí, Dalí par Dalí , Paris, 1970, pp. 32-33, illustrated (detail; in incorrect orientation)
Sarane Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surrealiste , 1973, p. 14, illustrated in color
Jacques Baron, Anthologie plastique du surréalisme , Paris, 1980, p. 78, illustrated in color (detail)
Robert Descharnes, Salvador Dalí: The Work, The Man, Lausanne, 1984, p. 117, illustrated in color
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Il Fantastico hidalgo don Chisciotte della Mancia illustrato da Salvador Dalí , Milan, 1986, pp. 162-63, illustrated (in incorrect orientation)
Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989 , Cologne, 1994, vol. I, no. 375, p. 169, illustrated in color; vol. II, p. 749
Marco Di Capua, Dalí , Paris, 1994, p. 116
Alice Stašková and Paul Michael Lützeler, eds., Hermann Broch und die Künste , Berlin, 2009, p. 48
Roger Rothman, Tiny Surrealism: Salvador Dalí and the Aesthetics of the Small , Lincoln, 2012, p. 94
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, ed., Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Salvador Dalí , 2019, no. P 273, illustrated in color, https://www.salvador-dali.org/fr/oeuvre/catalogue-raisonne-peinture/obra/273/symbiose-de-la-tete-en-coquillages (accessed on 2 March 2025)
Will Atkin, Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement , London, 2023, fig. 1.6, p. 36, illustrated in color
Salvador Dalí
(1904 - 1989)
Symbiose de la tête aux coquillages
signed Dalí and dated 31 (center left); signed and dated again (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
13 ¾ by 10 ¾ in. 35 by 27.4 cm.
Executed in 1931.
