Salvador Dalí (Figueres, 1904 - 1989) Lot n° 16

"Neurolegi" Mixed media on paper. Signed twice and dated 1977.   This drawing can be related to the three franc stamp, designed by Dali in 1978, for Postes de Francia, which went on sale through the French postal service in November 1979, according to Robert Descharnes, in "Dalí: la obra y el hombre", (Dali, the work and the man) published by Tusquets, 1984, page 412. The lot includes a photocopy of the Certificate of Authenticity dated 1989, issued by D. Enrique Sabater, Salvador Dali's secretary from 1968 to 1980.  This work of art was included in an exhibition of unpublished Salvador Dali drawings which took place in Barcelona in 1988. Also included is a photocopy of the article published in "El periódico" on 9th June 1988, in which this drawing that we are auctioning appears. 66 x 49 cm