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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 | 23 | $****** - ****** | Portrait de Gala Galarina |
Works on Paper
63.6 x 50 cm (25.04 x 19.69 in)
pencil on paper
signed Gala Salvador Dalí , dated 1941 and inscribed Le dessin est la probité de l"art Ingres (lower right)
Edward James, West Dean (acquired by 1964)
The Edward James Foundation, West Dean (acquired by 1980)
Christie"s, New York, 14 November 1984, lot 281 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Los Angeles, Municipal Art Gallery, An Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by Salvador Dalí , 1964, no. 40, n.p. (titled Nude Portrait of Gala and dated 1949)
New York, Gallery of Modern Art including the Huntington Hartford Collection, Salvador Dalí 1910-1965 , 1965-66, n.n., p. 5 (titled Nude Drawing of Gala and dated 1949)
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Dalí, avec la collection de Edward F. W. James , 1970-71, no. 128, n.p., illustrated
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Salvador Dalí, Bruikleen uit de colletie Edward F.W. James , 1972, no. 14, n.p., illustrated
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (on long-term loan until at least 1980)
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Salvador Dalí: rétrospective, 1920-1980 , 1979-80, no. 528, p. 90, illustrated (titled Portrait of Gala )
London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dalí , 1980, no. 196, p. 29 (titled Portrait of Gala )
Draeger, ed., Dalí , Paris, 1968, p. 38, illustrated (detail) (titled Galarina and dated 1945)
Max Gerard, Dalí… Dalí… Dalí… , Paris, 1974, no. 22, illustrated (detail)
Robert Descharnes, Dalí. L"Œuvre et l"homme , Lausanne, 1984, p. 296, illustrated (titled Portrait de Gala )
Salvador Dalí
1904 - 1989
Portrait de Gala Galarina
signed Gala Salvador Dalí , dated 1941 and inscribed Le dessin est la probité de l"art Ingres (lower right)
pencil on paper
63.6 by 50 cm. 25 by 19⅝ in.
Executed in 1941.
Nicolas and Olivier Descharnes have kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Formerly in the collection of Edward James.
