The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí announce that it has acquired the work by Salvador Dalí: Étude pour ‘Le miel est plus douce que la sang’, at the auction which took place at Christie’s London, on February, 9th, 2011 at 10pm, for a final price of £4,073,250. The work, lot 106 of the auction catalogue, an oil on wood from 1926-1927 representing one the first surrealist works of the artist, is a complete study for the painting of 1927 “Honey is sweeter than blood” – today disappeared.
Salvador Dalí Étude pour ‘Le miel est plus douce que la sang’ Date: 1926 Technique: Oil on wood Mesures: 36 x 44 cm (14.17″ x 17.32″) Núm. cat.185 Photo: Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí. ©Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala- Salvador Dalí, VEGAP, 2011.
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