SwissArtGallery · Documented identity
Born in Catalonia, a regional identity he asserted, Salvador Dalí developed a practice that extended well beyond painting: drawing, sculpture, theatrical set design, fashion, print advertising, and cinema also formed part of it. Born in 1904, Dalí died in 1989. He moved across several artistic fields without relinquishing the surrealist imagination that characterises a significant part of his work.
In 1922, Dalí moved to Madrid to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. During his first trip to Paris, in 1926, he discovered Surrealism. The Art Institute of Chicago links his paranoiac-critical method to a deliberate entry into a paranoid state, intended to access the subconscious, and discusses it in particular in relation to the painting Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution The Cuticle of a Grand Piano. Later, his interests in science and religion took on an important role in his work, while his surrealist inclination to question everyday norms through unconventional images remained.
In Invention of the Monsters, a 1937 painting, the Art Institute sees a characteristic expression of his Surrealism and of anxieties linked to the Spanish Civil War. With Venus de Milo with Drawers, he intervenes on a half-scale plaster reproduction of the ancient statue: the addition of drawers transforms this familiar figure into a singular object. The Art Institute of Chicago’s collection brings together 40 works by Dalí, including paintings, drawings, prints, objects, and textiles. In 2023, the museum devoted its first solo exhibition to the artist, Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears, presented from 18 February to 12 June.
This profile brings together identity references for Salvador Dalí and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
12 references are documented at Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer, Kornfeld, Germann, Piguet, Zofingen. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.
Original drawing in blue ink on lithograph
Départ pour le grand voyage, série La Divine Comédie
Dessin original à l’encre bleue sur lithographie
Catalogue period : 2025-11-29
Published result : 8500 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3000
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Original drawing in blue ink on lithograph
Le langage de l’oiseau, série La Divine Comédie
Dessin original à l’encre bleue sur lithographie
Catalogue period : 2025-11-29
Published result : 12000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3000
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Oil on wood
Solitude paranoïaque-critique (Paranoiac-Critical Solitude), 1935
Öl auf Holz
Catalogue period : 2024-06-19
Published result : 2970768 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 1500000–2000000
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Ohne Titel (Vorzeichnung zu „Les chants de Maldoror“)
pencil drawing
Catalogue period : 2020-09-17
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 25000
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Ohne Titel (Vorzeichnung zu „Les chants de Maldoror“)
Bleistiftzeichnung
Catalogue period : 2018-06-14
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 30000
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Recto: Tuschpinsel auf Papier; verso: Tusche- und Bleistiftzeichnung auf Papier.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Oil on wood
Sleeping Young Narcissus, 1980
Öl auf Holz.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Gouache on cardboard
Evêque, croix, 1963
Gouache auf Karton.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Indian ink on paper
Madone
encre de Chine sur papier
Catalogue period : 2020-12-09
Published result : 8000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 10000–15000
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dessin à l'encre noire et encre sépia sur carton
Catalogue period : 2021-06-09
Published result : 110000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 80000–120000
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Graphite pencil on paper
Scène mythologique
Crayon de graphite sur papier
Catalogue period : 2020-12-09
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 8000–12000
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Beide Kugelschreiber und Tusche auf Papier.
2 Blätter: Study for Shoe-Hat, 1937
Beide Kugelschreiber und Tusche auf Papier.
Lot groupé — prix global
Date to be documented
Group lot — total price
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
View the lot at the auction house ↗SwissArtGallery documentary note based on the cited sources. Titles, media and qualifications are provided in the profile language; the original catalogue wording remains available in each record.
Documentation updated : 2026-10-19
