After 50 years in the garage, a wonderful collection of Salvador Dali lithographs appears

A group of ten lithographs by the Spanish painter Salvador Dali (1904-1989) which was found in a London garage, where it had been forgotten for half a century, will be put up for sale on September 30 by Hansons Richmond auction house.

The lithographs cost £500 (€594) when they were purchased in the late 1970s and could now sell for around £5,000 (€5,949) when they go up for auction.

The discovery also includes five lithographs by the French painter, photographer and sculptor. Theo TobiasIt happened during a routine visit to appraise artworks at a house in Berkeley Square, in Mayfair.

As noted in a statement on the auction house’s website, the antiques expert Chris Kirkhamassociate director of London gallery Hansons Richmond, said it was an “impressive” discovery.

“I think the fact that it had been dormant for so long ensured that the colours were fresh, and by bearing Dali’s signature, it gives people a great opportunity to have something that the great man touched,” he said.

“It had been hidden and forgotten for almost 50 years. It was completely surreal,” he added. “You never know what you’re going to discover during a routine visit to the house.”

Kirkham revealed that the buyer of the works had intended to frame them to hang in his home but never did so “and they ended up in his garage.” “They were rediscovered because the seller was cleaning out. He is thinking about retiring and moving abroad, so these lithographs will finally see the light of day on auction day.”

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali and Dominic He was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Catalonia. Before him there were two “saviors” in the family. First his father, an angry lawyer and notary, and then his brother. The thing is that 9 months before his birth, the older brother died of a gastrointestinal cold. So they named him Salvador in honor of the deceased. At the age of five, his parents took him to the grave of their eldest son and told little Salva that he was his reincarnation, which generated an identity crisis and profound suffering.

At the age of 18 he moved to Madrid. He lived in the famous student residence to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. He participated in classes and outings with great artists such as the director Luis Buñuel – with whom he would later work – the poet Federico García Lorca, for whom he constantly declared his love, and the painter Maruja Mallo.

Already in the Parisian district of Montparnasse, he joined a group of surrealist artists. His style made him famous and he is considered the father of the paranoid critical method that had the ability to release creative energies from the unconscious. The artist is considered the great genius of surrealism, and became one of the most prolific artists of the twentieth century, but not without evading the controversy surrounding the signing of empty works and then marketing them, as the biography reveals. Dalyland.

With information from EFE