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Forgotten Dalí prints worth big bucks found collecting dust in garage
By SWNS,
3 hours ago
A collection of signed Salvador Dalí prints which spent 50 years gathering dust in a garage are set to fetch thousands at auction after being found during a clear-out.
The ten forgotten lithographs by the renowned Spanish surrealist were found in the garage of a house in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London.
They were bought for $660 from an art gallery at a closing down sale during the 1970s and could now fetch $6,600 when they go under the hammer next month.
The seller was having a clear-out while preparing to move house abroad when he discovered the ‘treasure trove’ of artwork recently.
A collection of signed Salvador Dalí prints which spent 50 years gathering dust in a garage are set to fetch thousands at auction. Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
The haul also includes five lithographs by French painter, engraver, illustrator and sculptor Theo Tobiasse.
The Dalí prints are expected to fetch £300-£500 (about $397-$662) and the Tobiasse works £100-£300 (about $132-397) when they are sold by Hansons Richmond in London on September 30.
Antiques expert Chris Kirkham, associate director of Hansons Richmond, said: “It was an amazing find.
“I was invited to assess some antiques at a client’s home.
“During the visit the vendor took me to his garage and, lo and behold, out came this treasure trove of surrealist lithographs – all 15 of them.
“They’d been tucked away and forgotten about for around 50 years. It felt quite surreal. You never know what you’re going to uncover on a routine home visit.
“The buyer paid a modest £500 for the lithographs, all unframed, in a closing down sale at a central London gallery in the 1970s.
The ten forgotten lithographs by the renowned Spanish surrealist were found in the garage of a house in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London. Hansons Richmond / SWNS
He became increasingly attracted to avant-garde movements and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming a leading exponent.
One of the most prolific artists of the 20th century, he’s renowned for his technical skill and bizarre images.
Influenced by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Sigmund Freud, his repertoire included paintings, sculpture, film, graphic art, animation, fashion and photography.
Catalonia-born surrealist Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) received his formal education in fine arts in Madrid. Michael Ochs Archives
Théo Tobiasse (1927-2012) was born in Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine, in 1927, to Jewish parents.
The family moved to Paris in 1931 where his typographer father found work in a Russian printing press.
Tobiasse’s first canvases were exhibited at the Salon des Peintres du Sud-Est in 1960.
In 1961 he won a prize for ‘Young Mediterranean Painting’ and the Dorothy-Gould Prize.
In 1962 he exhibited at Paris’s Galerie du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and decided to devote himself solely to visual arts.
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