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Old 17th Dec 2018, 10:40 pm   #1
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Default An Ivory 232 we bought for £835,000

One of the world's most famous Surrealist art works has been bought by the National Galleries of Scotland to stop it leaving the country.

Salvador Dali's Lobster Telephone was sold at auction but was "saved for the nation" after UK museums were given the chance to match the sale price.

The famous sculpture will now go on display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.

It was bought for £853,000, most of which came from a private fund.

It is one of 11 lobster telephones made for Dali's patron Edward James in the 1930s.

James was born in 1907 at his family's summer house, Greywalls, at Gullane, in East Lothian.

His family was immensely wealthy, owning a vast estate at West Dean in West Sussex

The lobster receivers were made to fit to telephones at James's house in Wimpole Street, central London, and at West Dean.

Four of the lobsters were painted red, and seven were painted white.

The Lobster Telephones are now almost all in museum collections around the world.

The Tate Modern in London has a red version on a black telephone.

The white version acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland had remained with the Edward James Foundation in West Sussex.

It was sold at auction but because of its "artistic and historical importance" it was subject to an export licence deferral.

This allowed the National Galleries to match the amount it had sold for.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-46564867

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Old 17th Dec 2018, 11:24 pm   #2
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Default Re: An Ivory 232 we bought for £835,000

What a lot of noughts..
I like what you did there, with the gaps between the lines.
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Old 18th Dec 2018, 10:15 am   #3
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Default Re: An Ivory 232 we bought for £835,000

Here's ours, made a couple of years ago for about £834,995 less.
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Default Re: An Ivory 232 we bought for £835,000

Everyone has different likes and dislikes, for me it reminds me of the monster in the 'Alien' film that bursts out of its egg and attaches itself around John Hurts face, I think I'd have to let the phone ring

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Here's ours, made a couple of years ago for about £834,995 less.
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I like that!
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Old 18th Dec 2018, 12:07 pm   #6
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Default Re: An Ivory 232 we bought for £835,000

I feel quite reluctant to put anything with claws like those up to my ear. If that was the phone, what was the rest of their house like?

Richard's version puts me in mind of an old cartoon about a visually impaired tortoise and a WWII German helmet.

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