THE DALÍ FOUNDATION PAYS 2.1 MILLION FOR THE PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER'S SISTER

The painting of Ana Maria was not seen again since it was exposed in 1925 Three euros from 1929 to 2.1 million euros from 2017. There is nothing like the revaluation of works in the art market. In this case, the profile figure, the painting that Salvador Dalí painted in 1925 of his teenage sister sitting in front of a window and looking out to sea. In 1929, after Dalí's first exhibition at the Dalmau Galleries, Joaquim Cusi, a friend of the family, bought it for 500 pesetas and yesterday the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation bought it for 2,109,630 euros, exceeding the price of 700,000 euros That part of this lot in the London auction hall Bonhams, as he released yesterday in a statement the own foundation that watches over the interests of the artist.

 

 

                                                             

• Ainhoa Peregrín and Pablo Miranda