Sphinx. verso “Study for a portrait of a woman”

Original pencil drawing on verge gris paper, circa 1955, inscribed in top right centre “12” , with apocryphal signature in black ink, With the stamp of the Perrot-Moore Museum, Cadaques, verso

Authentication: Certificate from Nicolas Descharnes dated 31/7/2019 Archive number d6931

Provenance:  John Peter Moore - A former British Army captain, first met Dalí in 1956 when he was working with film producer and director Alexander Korda in Rome, and arranged for him to be paid in cash for a painting of Laurence Olivier as Richard III. The two became friends. In 1960 Dalí employed Moore as his personal secretary and, from 1965, as his business manager.  Most if not all the works were stamped with the Museum stamp which can be seen on our work.