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Dali's painting may fetch 1.2 million pounds at UK auction

A portrait by Spanish painter Salvador Dali of his sister Ana Maria is expected to fetch up to 1.2 million pounds when it goes under the hammer for the first time in the UK.

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A portrait by Spanish painter Salvador Dali of his sister Ana Maria is expected to fetch up to 1.2 million pounds when it goes under the hammer for the first time in the UK.

Dali was 21 when he painted Figura de Perfil - figure in profile - and chose to include it in his first solo exhibition in Spain in 1925. This was for just a few years before the relationship between the siblings soured.

In the painting, Dali's sister is seen gazing through a window at the seaside.

Ana Maria, three years his junior, kept the picture for years, despite the permafrost of their later relationship, before giving it to friends whose family have kept it ever since.

India Phillips, from the British auction house Bonhams, described the picture as "laden with meaning and utterly enigmatic".

The sale is exceptionally rare, as almost all his work from the period is in public collections, Phillips said.

Ana Maria was Dali's favourite model when he was beginning his career as an artist and she was a teenager. He repeatedly drew and painted her from behind, often gazing out at the view from their seaside holiday home.

The angle he chose has led some of his biographers to claim that he had incestuous feelings for her, 'The Guardian' reported.

Their relationship began to disintegrate a few years later, when Dali met Gala, 10 years his senior and married to the surrealist poet Paul Eluard.

She became his model, muse, wife and business manager, and both Ana Maria and their father detested her.

 

(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

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