Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), Portrait de Picasso

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Portrait de Picasso
signed and inscribed ‘Salvador Dalí Ge conu L’Empereur, Mantilla Erecta’ (centre right)
pencil and gouache on handmade paper
17 7/8 x 11 1/8 in. (45.2 x 28.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1930

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Provenance
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (no. 6162), by whom acquired directly from the artist in March 1970.
Paul Goodman, Baltimore, by whom acquired from the above in June 1972, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION

Literature
L. Wertenbaker, The World of Picasso, New York, 1967, p. 125 (illustrated p. 124; dated '1933').
A. Reynolds Morse, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí: A Preliminary Study in their Similarities and Contrasts, Cleveland, 1973 (illustrated on the cover).

Exhibited
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, A Tribute to Picasso, Summer 1973.
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Twentieth Century Prints and Drawings, January - May 1974.
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Picasso: Drawings & Watercolors, 1899-1907, October 1976 - January 1977.
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore’s Print and Drawing Society, 1968-1988: Selections from the Members’ Collections, October - December 1988, n.p..
St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dalí Museum, The Young Dalí, 1914-1930, May - September 1995.
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Picasso, Surrealism and the War Years, January - August 2004.