Salvador Dali, Spain

Brief story about our Dali collection: Before his death Dali gave everything to the Spanish State, which charged the Foundation Salvador Dali in Figueras to run Dali’s business. So after Dali’s death, John Heinz signed a new contract with the Foundation Salvador Dali in Spain. He and Robert Descharnes (Expert of Dali for Christie’s and Sotheby’s) started to cast the collection of these Dali’s sculptures. The foundry Bonvicini was Dali’s foundry. The directors of this foundry are Fausto and Giovanna Bonvicini. They used to work for Dali, Miro, César, Ernst, De Chirico, and Appel. They are still working for Arman. So for our Dali’s sculptures there is only 1 posthumous edition of originals (originals are on 12 or 8) and only 1 posthumous edition of multiples (some of multiples are on 1/450 to 450/450 and others on 1/150 to 150/150). Dali himself decided the number of casts so we cannot cast more than that because the powerful Foundation Dali will not allow us to do it. We are working in tandem with them for sculptures. These works were never shown to the general public in the United States, except 3 originals, 2 angels and a Christ at the Museum of Catholic Art in NY. Aldo Castillo Gallery has an exclusive representation for sale of these works in the USA.