Salvador Dalí (after) - Rêve Causé par le Vol d’une...

Offset lithography after Salvador Dalí (*) Reproduction of the work “Rêve causé par le vol d’une abeille autour d’une grenade une second avant le reveil” (Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a grenade a second before awakening). Work created by Dalí in 1944. Printed on thick Fine Art board 250g. Published by M&S. Print authorized with copyright. Large Format. Specifications: - Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm - Year: 2004 - Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, thus in perfect condition). - Provenance: Private collection. The work will be carefully handled and wrapped in reinforced cardboard packaging. Shipping will be tracked with a certification number. The shipment will also include transit insurance for the final value of the artwork with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer. (*) (*) Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí was born in Figueras (Spain) in 1904. Between 1921 and 1925 he studied at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid where he befriended the poet Federico García Lorca and the filmmaker Buñuel. In 1925 the Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona organized his first solo exhibition, an exhibition after which Picasso and Miró began to take an interest in his works. Dalí was first influenced by Futurism, then Cubism (1925). In April 1926 Dalí traveled to Paris for the first time where he met Picasso. On his second trip to Paris, in 1929, he attended the shoot of Buñuel’s film “Un chien Andalou” (The Andalusian Dog) of which Dalí was co-screenwriter, and Miró introduced him to the Surrealist group. Dalí found André Breton and ……Gala, his future wife and muse (then married to Paul Éluard). He joined the Surrealist movement in 1929. Dalí was interested in Freud’s psychoanalytic theories and defined his method as “paranoiac-critical.” He painted dreamlike and phantasmagoric spaces filled with symbolic elements: soft watches, canes, fantastical animals, twisted figures. Dalí continued to participate in surrealist manifestations and exhibitions after his exclusion in 1934. Dalí interpreted several famous works in his own way, such as Millet’s The Angelus, producing several versions of them. Breton nicknamed him “Avide Dollar”! After the Spanish Civil War he politically aligned himself with Franco. From the 1940s he expressed a desire to approach reality and returned to a more classical pictorial expression, while still imprinting his personal fantasy on his works. Recurring themes in both his painted and etched works are women, sex, religion, battles. Dalí staged peculiar performances throughout his career, mixing art and life, constantly performing himself. After ten years of effort, Dalí opened his own museum: in 1974 the Teatro-Museo Dalí was inaugurated. Dalí’s last passion was “stereoscopic” painting (1975) and he presented his first “hyper-stereoscopic” work in New York in 1978. Dalí, who described himself as a “cannibal,” “megalomaniac,” and a “polymorphic pervert,” died in Barcelona (Spain) in 1989.

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