Salvador Dali’s Fruit

These 14 original watercolor fruit studies by Salvador Dali  were commissioned in 1969 by the publisher Jean-Paul Schneider and then became a series of lithographs. The publisher kept the originals until they were sold in 2000 to a European collector who is now selling them at Bonhams, London, on the 18th of June.  Each work  is valued at £40,000-£70,000 with the series expected to make close to £1m. The works have names such as Hasty Plum, Raspberry Blush, Wild Blackberries and Erotic Grapefruit, which includes a leaf falling backwards as it is drenched by a shower of juice.