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Salvador Dalí worked in many different mediums during his artistic career. He created paintings, sculptures, prints and clothing, and his work also includes film collaborations with Luis Buñuel and Alfred Hitchcock. Some of his most famous works include The Persistence of Memory, Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, The Hallucinogenic Toreador and The Temptation of St. Anthony. On 1stDibs, shop a range of Salvador Dalí art.
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Don Quichotte - Original etching (Field #65-7D)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI (1904-1989)
Cinq portraits espagnols, Don Quichotte, 1966
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Arches vellum 35.5 x 28 cm (c. 14 x 11 in)
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Category
1960s Modern 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
Hommage a Picasso (Cannes) (Cote d'Azur) /// Surrealism Salvador Dali Surrealist
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Title: "Hommage a Picasso (Cannes) (Cote d'Azur)"
*Signed by Dali in pencil lower right
Year: 1973
Medium: Original Drypoint Etching on Rives BFK paper
Limited edition: L/CC (50/200)
Printer: Atelier Rigal, Paris, France
Publisher: Felicia, New York, NY and EGI, Beverly Hills, CA
Reference: "The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali" - Field No. 73-5, page 84; "Dali: Catalogue Raisonné of Etchings and Mixed-Media Prints, 1924-1980" - Michler/Löpsinger No. 719, page 252
Sheet size: 26" x 19.63"
Image size: 19.88" x 14.5"
Condition: In excellent condition
Rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Clearwater, FL. Numbered by Dali in pencil lower left. BFK Rives watermark lower right. Some dealer reference numbers pencil inscribed on verso. Dali executed this etching in Cannes, France when he learned of Picasso's death.
We are specialists in Salvador Dali's printmaking oeuvre, having personally worked with his cataloger Albert Field in the 1980's, we unconditionally guarantee all of our examples to be authentic.
Biography:
Salvador Dalí (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental...
Category
1970s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Intaglio, Drypoint, Etching
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
New Jerusalem The Messiah
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: New Jerusalem The Messiah
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali
EDITION NUMBER: 108/350
MEASUREMENTS: 20" x 25.75"
YEAR: 1980
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Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Passiflora Laurigera original signed etching Flora Dalinae 1968 Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paonia, CO
Passiflora Laurigera original signed limited edition ( 121/200) etching from Flora Dalinae 1968 suite by Salvador Dali. This suite consists of ten original etchings published b...
Category
1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching