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Salvador Dalí
Surrealistic Flowers: six plates
- Estimate
- £2,000 - 3,000•‡♠
£3,750
Lot Details
Six heliogravures in colours with script, on Arches paper, with full margins,
1972
all I. 56.5 x 38.4 cm (22 1/4 x 15 1/8 in.)
all S. 75.2 x 55.2 cm (29 5/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
all S. 75.2 x 55.2 cm (29 5/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
all sheets signed and numbered variously from the edition of 350 in pencil (there was also an edition of 350 with drypoint additions and without script), published by Editions Graphiques International, Paris, all unframed.
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Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Including Gladiolus cum aurium corymbo expectantium; Lilium aurancacium et labra barocantia; Anemone per anti-pasti; Dahlia rapax; Hermerocallis thumbergii elephanter furiosa and Kniphofia aprodisiaca;
Literature
Salvador Dalí
Spanish | B. 1904 D. 1989Salvador Dalí was perhaps the most broadly known member of the Surrealist movement of the early twentieth century. Heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud, the avant-garde style explored consciousness and dream-like states through exaggerated landscapes and bizarre or grotesque imagery. Using the means of painting, sculpture, printmaking, film and literature, Dalí explored these ideas with a meticulous hand and inventive wit. Although known for his role in Surrealism, Dalí was also a seminal example of celebrity showmanship and the cult of personality, a phenomenon that dominates popular culture today. Always a colorful and flamboyant presence with his signature cape, wide-eyed expression and trademark upturned waxed mustache, Dalí was a master of self-promotion and spectacle.
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