Men and Sea
Salvador Dalí (Figueres 1904 - Figueres 1989)
Lot-No. 160
Offset in colours, 104 x 73 cm, lo. ri. autographed Dalí, lo. le. num. EA, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - It's a design for the olympic sailing competition in Kiel in 1972. - Multitalented spanish artist, main exponent of surrealism. He studied at the Madrid Academy a. was initially influenced by the 'pittura metafisica' of de Chirico a. Carrà. During a Paris trip in 1929 he affiliated at the surrealist A. Breton. Freuds theories of interpretation of dreams fostered D.s inclinattion to the fantastac a. surreal. Some of his motifs are among the most famous a. popular creations of modern art. - Mus.: Figueres, St. Petersburg (Florida), Zürich a. others. - Lit.: Etherington-Smith, Salber, Schiebler, Michler/Löpsinger 'S.D. - Catalogue raisoné of etchings and mixed-media prints, 1924-1980' (1994) a. others.
Salvador Dalí: Men and Sea
Salvador Dalí (Figueres 1904 - Figueres 1989)
Men and Sea
Lot-No. 160
Offset in colours, 104 x 73 cm, lo. ri. autographed Dalí, lo. le. num. EA, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - It's a design for the olympic sailing competition in Kiel in 1972. - Multitalented spanish artist, main exponent of surrealism. He studied at the Madrid Academy a. was initially influenced by the 'pittura metafisica' of de Chirico a. Carrà. During a Paris trip in 1929 he affiliated at the surrealist A. Breton. Freuds theories of interpretation of dreams fostered D.s inclinattion to the fantastac a. surreal. Some of his motifs are among the most famous a. popular creations of modern art. - Mus.: Figueres, St. Petersburg (Florida), Zürich a. others. - Lit.: Etherington-Smith, Salber, Schiebler, Michler/Löpsinger 'S.D. - Catalogue raisoné of etchings and mixed-media prints, 1924-1980' (1994) a. others.