![]() The auctioneer has the right to refuse any bid at his absolute discretion.The bidding shall be regulated by the auctioneer as the sale proceeds, and no bidding shall be retracted.The highest approved bidder shall be the Purchaser, and if any dispute arises as to a bid, the lot in dispute may be put up again at the last undisputed bid and any dispute whatever in respect of the property or the sale and delivery of the goods shall be determined by the auctioneer, or in his absence by the Clerk of the sale.Confirming your bid is a commitment to buy and is legally binding. All bids shall be treated as offers made upon the conditions of sale.Morgan O’Driscoll acts in every respect only as agents for the seller of each lot.If you do not accept these terms and conditions, please do not use this website. By using this website, you indicate your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully. If you are not receiving emails from please check the junk folder in your email application.Ĭonditions of Business for Online Auctions You may leave a maximum bid which will instruct the computer to bid on your behalf only as much as required for to remain the highest bidder up until your maximum bid. VAT is payable on the commission at the prevailing rate.įor example: On a hammer price of €1,000, the Buyer's Premium amounts to €200 and the VAT on the Buyer's Premium amounts to €46, giving a total amount due of €1,246. ![]() The buyer shall pay the auctioneer a commission of 20% of the auction price. Once logged in you are ready to bid on any of the lots. To buy an item at Morgan O’ Driscoll’s Online Auctions, you must create an account and login. If you have not bought at Morgan O’ Driscoll’s Online Auctions before please read the following guide. If you are outbid you will be notified by email and have the option to bid again and if you win a lot you will receive an invoice by email after the auction's completion. If your bid is accepted, you will be notified that you are the current highest bidder. This will continue until such time as no higher bid is placed during the last 5 minutes. If within 5 minutes of the end of the auction (for each specific lot only) a new bid is placed, the auction time remaining reverts to 5 minutes from the time the new bid is placed. Please note: Each individual lot displays a unique individual end time. The sale will end with every lot finishing at 1 minute intervals up until the sales completion. In 1958, Dalí wrote, "Paradoxically, this painting, which has an erotic appearance, is the most chaste of all.Sale ProcedureThe sale will commence at a designated time and date and will run for a specific number of dates. The painting, formerly in the collection of The Playboy Mansion (Playboy Enterprises sold the painting in London in 2003 for 1.35 million pounds ), recalls his depiction of his sister Ana María in Figure at a Window (1925), and has therefore been read by some critics as a nasty jab at his sister, punishing her for publishing a biography on Dalí that presented a quite negative point of view it has also been interpreted as a painting of Gala, though in fact the figure is based on a photograph from a 1930s sex magazine. Specifically, Vermeer's The Lacemaker seems to have been the galvanising element, with its convergent curves which focus on the subject's fingers and so to the penetration point of her needle - which as Dalí has pointed out is merely implied and not actually painted. Here, the young virgin's buttocks consist of two converging horns and two horns float beneath "as the horns simultaneously comprise and threaten to sodomise the callipygian figure, she is effectively (auto) sodomised by her own constitution." ĭalí's inspiration for the image appears to have come from Vermeer, one of a handful of artists regarded by Dalí as masters. During the 1950s, Dalí painted many of his subjects as composed of rhinoceros horns. Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity is a 1954 painting by Salvador Dalí. ![]() 1954 painting by Salvador Dalí Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by
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