Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), Rhinocéros en désintégration

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Rhinocéros en désintégration
signed and dated 'Dalí 1950' (lower centre)
watercolour, pen and ink on paper
29 3/4 x 39 7/8 in. (76 x 101.7 cm.)
Executed in 1950

Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Provenance
Carstairs Gallery, New York.
Donald & Phyllis Sterling, Toronto, by whom acquired in 1981; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 2014, lot 130.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature
R. Santos Torroella, Salvador Dalí, Madrid, 1952, n.p. (illustrated).
R. Descharnes & G. Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989: The Paintings, vol. II, 1946-1989, Cologne, 2004, pp. 436 & 764 (illustrated fig. 965, p. 437).

Exhibited
Barcelona, Museo de Arte Moderno, I Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte, January - February 1952, p. 9.