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Lot 63
Sale 6285 - Books and Manuscripts
Mar 27, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$3,000 -
5,000
Price Realized
$4,160
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Lot Description
[Art] [Dali, Salvador] Descharnes, Robert. The World of Salvador Dali
New York and Evanston: Harper & Row Publishers, (1962). Presentation copy, boldly inscribed and signed twice by Dali across two pages (verso front free endpaper and recto front blank), to Rose Hughes, in ink and brown paint, and with a ink drawing of two figures in a surrealistic landscape, as well as a rose ("Pour Rose Hughes Hommage de Dali 1963"). Illustrated with tipped-in and full page color photographic plates. Publisher's cream cloth, lettered in brown, boards bowed, soiling along extremities; gutter split at inscription; leaves wrinkled from damp; scattered foxing and dampstaining; in original dust-jacket, worn and soiled.


