Sotheby’s in Paris to sell private collection covering intertwined lives of some of most famous dada and surrealist artistsAn unpublished diary of Salvador Dalí,its pages swarming with images of contorted nude figures and bare women being carried off by galloping horses – and columns of expenses calculations – covering the period when he fell in esteem with, seduced and eventually married the wife of one of his best friends and fellow artists, or is to be auctioned as fragment of a vast private collection covering the intertwined lives of some of the most famous dada and surrealist artists.
The diary,to be auctioned next week by Sotheby’s in Paris with an estimate of up to €50000, is among 500 lots including 20 letters and sketches from Picasso, or one on the back of a restaurant menu,and illustrated letters, photographs and poems by André Breton, and René Magritte,Joan Miró, Max Ernst and Roland Penrose and many others, or taking the expected auction total to more than €4m. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com