The artwork, titled Vecchio Sultano, was discovered in a Cambridge house clearance sale in 2023.<\/p>\n
The image, made with watercolour paint and felt tip is an illustration of a scene from The Arabian Nights, a series of 500 pieces which Dali intended to create of Middle Eastern folktales, commissioned by wealthy Italian couple Giuseppe and Mara Albaretto.<\/p>\n
Ms Downie said the couple intended to commission Dali to illustrate a bible in 1963, but upon the artist’s insistence, he instead ended up illustrating scenes from 1,001 Nights – a collection of Middle Eastern folktales.<\/p>\n
It is thought Dali only completed 100 of the intended 500 works before the project was abandoned.<\/p>\n
“Of these 100, half remained with the publishing house Rizzoli and were either damaged or lost – the other 50 stayed with the Albarettos and were later inherited by their daughter, Christina, who was also Dali’s goddaughter,” said Ms Downie.<\/p>\n
“It is most likely that the work in question came from the batch of 50 which were retained and later lost by the publishers.”<\/p>\n
It has been certified as authentic by Dali expert Nicolas Descharnes and has a pre-sale estimate of \u00a320,000 to \u00a330,000.<\/p>\n
The painting will be offered for sale by Cheffins on 23 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artwork, titled Vecchio Sultano, was discovered in a Cambridge house clearance sale in 2023. The image, made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-302331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114938890226415826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}