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What is unique about Salvador Dalí art?
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What is unique about Salvador Dalí art is its dreamlike imagery, drawn from the depths of the unconscious. He used hyperrealism to convey Surrealist symbols and concepts that subvert accepted notions of reality. You can see this clearly reflected in what is perhaps his most recognizable painting, The Persistence of Memory (1931), in which he depicts the fluidity of time through melting clocks, their forms inspired by Camembert cheese melting in the sun. Although the scene is one of fantasy, Dalí rendered each object in a manner that makes the elements look as lifelike and realistic as possible rather than abstracting their forms. On 1stDibs, explore a selection of Salvador Dalí art.
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Salvador Dali -- Tancreds Oath from Marquis de Sade, 1969
By Salvador Dalí
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali
Tancreds Oath from Marquis de Sade Suite, 1969
Lithograph
Edition 110/160
Hand signed lower right
Image size: 53 X 42.5 cm
Sheet size: 65 x 50 cm
Published by Shorewo...
Category
1960s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Argus ( Le Peon ) original etching The Mythology series by Salvador Dali 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paonia, CO
Argus ( Le Peon ) is an original handsigned limited edition ( 79 /150 ) etching by Salvador Dali from The Mythology series, 1963. Published by Pierre Argillet, Paris on Arches paper ( ref: Field 63-3A / Michler & Lopsinger 116). Salvador Dalí’s mythology...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
The Judgement of Paris original E.A. etching by Salvador Dali Mythology Suite
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paonia, CO
The Judgement of Paris ( Three Graces ) is an original limited edition Epreuve d'Artiste ( EA ) etching by Salvador Dali from the Mythology Suite. ( ref: Field 63-3.I / Michler & Lopsinger 123 ). Salvador Dalí’s mythology...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Dimensions: 76.5 x 57 cm
1970
Signed in pencil and numbered
Edition : /CXX
References : Field 70-8
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figueras in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter, Ramon Pichot and later an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School. In 1923 his father bought his son his first printing press.
Dali began to study art at the Royal Academy of Art in Madrid. He was expelled twice and never took the final examinations. His opinion was that he was more qualified than those who should have examined him.
In 1928 Dali went to Paris where he met the Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He established himself as the principal figure of a group of surrealist artists grouped around Andre Breton, who was something like the theoretical "schoolmaster" of surrealism. Years later Breton turned away from Dali accusing him of support of fascism, excessive self-presentation and financial greediness.
By 1929 Dali had found his personal style that should make him famous the world of the unconscious that is recalled during our dreams. The surrealist theory is based on the theories of the psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud. Recurring images of burning giraffes and melting watches...
Category
1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Heaven Canto 4 (The Divine Comedy)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Greenwich, CT
Heaven Canto 4 is a wood engraving on BFK Rives with an image size of 10 x 7" from the popular French edition of the portfolio. Framed in a classic, gold-tone frame.
Cataloging:
Mi...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Salvador Dalí -- The Immaculate Conception
By Salvador Dalí
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dalí
The Immaculate Conception, 1979
Original lithograph on Japon paper
Hand signed lower right
Edition I VI/C
Image size 58.5 x 41 cm
Sheet size 60 x 46 cm
The stamp of th...
Category
1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph