United Kingdom, Sep 28.- Eleven unpublished lithographs by the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), which had remained forgotten in a London garage for half a century, will be auctioned next Monday at the Hansons Richmond house, in the southwest of the British capital.
The lithographs date from the latter part of the 70s, as reflected by the ‘Dalí’ signature that the surrealist artist himself captured on most of them.
An unknown client “awarded them to them in the early 1980s from a London art gallery that was liquidating inventory for around five hundred pounds (592 euros),” Chris Kirkham, associate director of the Hansons Richmond auction house, told EFE.
The owner until now had the intention of framing them and left them in the storage room of his garage, safely, in a bag where they have been well cared for all this time.
“He came across them again when he was moving, found them again and decided it was right to sell them so that people could enjoy them framed,” Kirkham reveals fifty years later.
The director of Hansons Richmond explains that he went to the client’s private residence to appraise some silver and jewelry items when he came across the unusual collection, and remembers that “it was exciting to see” so many of Dalí’s works together.
In them you can glimpse human silhouettes, shadows, bright and fresh colors, monuments that evoke the Arc de Triomphe in Barcelona, or the Roman Coliseum; the biblical Eden or human beauty with a ‘Dalinian’ portrait in blue and yellow of a woman’s face.
The eleven new creations remain in the same bag that keeps them intact, and are valued at about a thousand pounds each – about 1,200 euros – according to a first appraisal by the director of Hansons Richmond.
“Considering that each one of them is signed by Dalí, (the price) is not significant and is a great way to buy something close to the artist,” says Kirkham. (Text and Photo: Cubasí)
