![]() ![]() ![]() More than any other place on earth, it was the bay at Port Lligat that provided the landscape of Dalí’s hallucinatory visions. ![]() The piece is among 27 lots up for auction in The Art of the Surreal sale at Christie’s in New York on March 23.Ĭreated using a mixture of delicate watercolour and thin strokes of pen and ink, Le Chevalier has a pre-auction estimate of between £220,000 and £260,000 ($NZ425,000 to $503,000 $US307,000 to $363,000).ĭali completed several artworks and sculptures including horses during his lifetime.īehind the knight and his steed, a frieze-like sequence of otherworldly characters is dotted along the shoreline of a quiet inlet, which contains echoes of the landscape near Dalí’s home in Port Lligat in Northern Spain. Bearing a scroll and shield, and wearing laurel leaves tucked behind his ears, the dashing knight seems to have been plucked from an ancient Greek myth, his muscular form suggesting a heroic figure such as Herakles, perhaps riding one of the mares of Diomedes. © Christie’s Images Limited 2021Īn equestrian watercolour by artist Salvador Dali is predicted to fetch up to half a million dollars at auction in New York later this month.ĭalí’s 1954 composition Le Chevalier is dominated by a monumental horse and rider charging triumphantly through the scene, their forms heroically towering over the landscape. Le Chevalier by Salvador Dali (1904-1989) is being auctioned in New York later this month. ![]()
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