Aphrodite
Salvador Dalí (Figueres 1904 - Figures 1989)
Lot-No. 167
Dry point/Arches, 50 x 39,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. Dalí 1963, lo. le. num. 8/150, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Cat. rais.: Michler/Löpsinger 117a. - From the series 'Mythologie'. - 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: Aphrodite
Salvador Dalí (Figueres 1904 - Figures 1989)
Aphrodite
Lot-No. 167
Dry point/Arches, 50 x 39,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. Dalí 1963, lo. le. num. 8/150, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Cat. rais.: Michler/Löpsinger 117a. - From the series 'Mythologie'. - 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.