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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 17, 2025 | Sotheby's | London | Pauline Karpidas: The London Collection Evening Auction | 32 | $****** - ****** | Cannibalisme des objets, tête de femme avec soulier |
Works on Paper
63 x 47.8 cm (24.8 x 18.82 in)
gouache, brush and pen and ink on paper
signed Salvador Dalí and dated 1937 (lower left)
Edward James, West Dean (acquired by 1963)
Edward James Foundation, West Dean (acquired from the above by 1972)
The Mayor Gallery, London (acquired by 1983)
Robert Fraser Gallery, London
Acquired from the above on 24 October 1983 by the present owner
Sussex, Worthing Art Gallery and Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, Paintings from the Edward James Collection: Dalí, Tchelitchew, Chirico, Magritte , 1963-64, no. 20, n.p. (titled Woman with shoe in teeth and catalogued as pen and ink and tempera)
Manchester, City Art Gallery; Birmingham, City Art Museum and Gallery; Norwich, Castle Museum; Hull, Ferrens Art Gallery; Bath, Holburne of Menstrie Museum and Plymouth, City Museum of Art, Surrealist Pictures from the Edward James Collection , 1969, no. 11, n.p. (titled A woman"s head with a shoe )
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Dalí , 1970-71, no. 117, n.p., illustrated (titled Tête de femme, avec soulier )
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Edward James Collection: Dalí, Magritte and other Surrealists , 1976, no. 17, p. 13, illustrated (titled Woman"s head and shoe ); p. 8
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980 , 1979-80, no. 169, p. 231, illustrated (titled Cannibalisme des objets )
London, The Mayor Gallery, Fifty Drawings by Salvador Dalí from the Edward James Collection , 1983
Robert Descharnes, Dalí. L"Œuvre et l"homme , Lausanne, 1984, p. 211, illustrated in colour (titled Cannibalisme des objets )
Salvador Dalí
1904 - 1989
Cannibalisme des objets, tête de femme avec soulier
signed Salvador Dalí and dated 1937 (lower left)
gouache, brush and pen and ink on paper
63 by 47.8 cm. 24¾ by 18¾ in.
Executed in 1937.
Nicolas and Olivier Descharnes have kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Formerly in the collection of Edward James.
