Sotheby's announces record sales numbers, includes Dali sales in results

Sotheby's announces largest sales growth in auction history!

Part of the success is attributed to works by Salvador Dali.

From Sothbey's:

Dali's masterpiece, Portrait de Paul Eluard was pursued by no fewer than nine prospective buyers and soared above the pre-sale estimate to sell for $21.7 million. It tripled the record established for Dali set earlier in the week and also became a new record price for any Surrealist work of art sold at auction.

Santiago El Grande Salvador Dali painting High Museum

Three paintings by legendary surrealist Salvador Dali - including the epic 1957 piece Santiago El Grande, featuring a rearing white horse with St. James of Compostela, the patron saint of Spain, on its back - returned to Fredericton last week from a six-month loan to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Ga.

Salvador Dali Posters

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Lady Gaga pays hommage to Salvador Dali on KIIS FM Ryan Seacrest

I have been waiting for Lady Gaga to give credit to Salvador Dali for many of her fashions, icons and public displays, she finally did that this morning while on the radio with Ryan Seacrest of KIIS FM

Excerpt from show:

"And I would say an abundance of Francis Bacon and Dalí-like references. And perhaps a little bit of Rainbow Brite and Barbie.” (I don’t know about you, PopWatchers, but I loved Dalí’s The Persistence of Lala Orange.)"

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Lady Gaga Egg borrowed from Salvador Dali

Lady Gaga Borrows another idea from Salvador Dali, The EGG.

First you see Dali's use of the egg in a 1940's painting called "Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man"

Next you see an image of Lady Gaga arriving at the Grammys in an EGG.

Here are some more examples of Dali's use of the EGG

Lady Gaga continues to use Dali Icons on stage and at public events. Her name Gaga, very similar to Dali's wifes name, Gala.

Salvador Dali continues to set records at auction!

Salvador Dali continues to draw large crowds at auction and sell far above projected hammer price.