Focus on this artwork and analyze the Versions.
Dalí created at least one preparatory study, First Version of The Colossus of Rhodes, a 1954 ink-on-cardboard work measuring 25 by 35.3 cm (9.8 by 13.9 in) that includes three sketches of the Colossus. It was displayed at the Time Warner Center in New York from 3 November 2010 to 30 April 2011 as part of the exhibition Dalí at Time Warner Center: The Vision of a Genius, where it was also for sale.Lithographs replicating the statue are frequently offered for sale. Owing to what Shanes calls Dalí's "exploitative and/or lackadaisical attitude", the trade in Dalí's lithographs is "in chaos". Dalí, eschewing the custom of limited printings with plates that were then destroyed, signed some 40,000 to 350,000 blank sheets of paper, which were then printed with his works. Coupled with rampant forgeries of an easily faked signature, this—termed by Shanes "one of the largest and most prolonged acts of financial fraud ever perpetrated in the history of art"—caused the lithographs to become virtually worthless.
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