Salvador Dalí treasures found in garage after 50 years stun at auction

The Manila Times

Salvador Dalí treasures found in garage after 50 years stun at auction  A series of lithographs by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali have sparked an auction battle after being discovered after 50 years spent in a London garage. The 11 prints were bought in the 1970s at a gallery closing down sale for just 500 pounds, before being auctioned by Hansons, with each piece exceeding its guide price of 500-700 pounds. One sold at nearly 5,000 pounds. "It's quite an exciting thing," says Chris Kirkham, Associate Director and Senior Valuer at Hansons Auctioneers Richmond.   AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe    Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #tmtnews  #salvadordali  #painting

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00:00Okay, we've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

00:12If the perimeter still hasn't been cleared.

00:19What I'm going to do...

00:21Take a while to...

00:22I'm going to call you back. We'll call our accounts now, okay?

00:25Not the number eight.

00:26Can I have your sign off?

00:28Can I just double check? I don't think we can pull the wrong one out.

00:31It must be a particularly rare one.

00:33I don't know...

00:34This is where it becomes...

00:36...to say that they're okay.

00:38Probably an assistant would mark them with the number of the addition here.

00:42And then here you have the stamp.

00:44But, you know...

00:58Well, I'll...

01:11Do you want...

01:12No, no, no.

01:14Yeah.

01:17Because I...

01:20No, but this person is...

01:23No, no, no, she...

01:26Hi, who's speaking?

01:29Hi, who's speaking?

01:30Okay, well, let's see.

01:32So, 150, shall we?

01:34Yeah.

01:35Mostly.

01:36So, my age is...

01:38I think...

01:40...my son's had it, and he said it's all right, it's about a week.

01:43Yeah.

01:49I don't want 40 to be on the floor. I don't know why.

01:56It's really funny.

02:10Okay, so, as normal, a client called in.

02:14He was clearing out some sort of different bits and pieces and things from his garage

02:20in central London, in Mayfair.

02:22And we stumbled on these in the garage, safely stored.

02:27He'd bought them from a gallery that was closing down in the sort of early 1980s, I think.

02:32And I think it was something like six or seven hundred pounds he paid for all of them.

02:36But, you know, it's always exciting.

02:38And the vibrancy of the colours, you know, and the fact that each print is signed by the artist himself,

02:43which is pretty amazing.

02:45Yes, it's quite an exciting thing.

02:47And then you think, you know, it's nice to bring them to market and they'll be framed

02:51and put on people's walls as they should be, rather than just sort of tucked away

02:55with no one enjoying them, really.

02:57Well, the beauty of the internet is that, you know, the buyers are younger.

03:00And because of the exposure online, it's less trade buyers and more private buyers now.

03:07And they are younger, yes.

03:09You know, we have one lady, you know, that bought three today,

03:13that saw the advertisement, you know, from the advertisements, etc.

03:17And she just wants them for her home, you know, on the wall, which is great.

03:20Which is nice, you know, because previous, you know, 10 years ago,

03:24auctions would only really sell largely 80-90% to trade.

03:28Then they would retail them.

03:29So it's an opportunity for people to buy things that are, you know, a competitive amount.

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