#54 • Salvador Dalí "Earth Mother (Maternite)" Bronze Sculpture

Part of March 2025 Premier Auction (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $1,900.00

Status: Sold

Category: Art

Limited Edition Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989) abstract nude-esque bronze sculpture c.1971, numbered 6/100. Piece is titled Earth Mother (Maternite), representing Artemis, the Goddess of Fertility, depicting a nurturing woman-like figure with a mechanism protruding from her forehead, grouping of nodules along chest and stomach, and Dali's classic "Melting Clock" imagery on her right shoulder. Piece is signed on lower hip area; it rests, but is not fully secured, on a solid dark marble base with white and grey veins throughout. Sculpture comes with paperwork dated 1998, including an invoice, brochure photographs, and C.A.G. Fine Arts Certificate of Appraisal, showing a 1998 appraisal value of $15,000. It measures approximately 6.75" x 5.5" x 15" tall.