Original etching enriched by dry needle technique on lithography made on the presses of the Cadaqués workshop at the Atelier Rigal , on darkened velvet from Auvergne, dimensions: 56 x 36 cm press imprint, 75 x 52 cm cm in passe partout frame, limited edition, numbered LXI/CL, signed in pencil by the author " Dali 1969" l.d.
REFERENCES:
- Field catalog raisonné #69-11 E
- Michler & Lopsinger catalog raisonné #348
- Sahli catalog raisonné #172
The etchings from the "Flordali "series were made according to Salvador Dali's gouaches, which were modeled on illustrations for the publication of A. Poiteau, Pomologie française, published in 1846. The artist supplemented them with drawing motifs in dry needle technique.
The largest collection of Salvador Dalí's works is held by the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain. In addition, the artist's works can be seen at the Gala Dalí House-Museum in Púbol (Spain), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Reina Sofia Museum) in Madrid, the Salvador Dalí House Museum in Port Lligat and the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, among others.
The immediate inspiration for Salvador Dalí's surrealist painting was Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. The artist was fascinated by the human subconscious and sought to depict the images hidden therein by means of the painterly form.
Based on Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, he developed his own so-called paranoid-critical creative method, which he defined in the article ĽAne pourri (1930);a spontaneous method of irrational cognition, based on the critical and systematic objectification of delirious associations and interpretations. The artist's paintings were not indifferent to the work of other Surrealists like Yves Tanguy and Giorgio de Chirico. Salvador Dali's works, maintained in the convention of realistic visions of
of dreams and hallucinations, were imbued with erotic content, and revealed an obsessive interest in problems of transience and decay, as well as memory and duration.
In 1969 Dalí worked on color lithographic plates of "Pomologie francais" from 1846. The illustrations, made in this technique, show a very subtle play of colors and their main subject is botanical motifs. Dalí o nourished the finished graphics with his peculiar fantasies. In the collection of four proposed graphics we have a peach, a fig and an apricot. They are part of the series
"FlorDali (Les Fruits)," which consisted of 12 boards. The works are extremely decorative. They combine the beauty of old lithographs and botanicals with a pinch of wit, eroticism and surrealist thought.
The artist has fun in an intelligent way, combining the aesthetics of these two worlds. In "Apricot Knight "erotic elements were brought out, the contrast between the Knight symbolizing male drive, boldness and the fragile but sensual apricot. Fig has a similar character. The fruit has replaced the figure's breasts, but the figure wriggles dramatically under the stem that holds it in place. "Penitent Peach"
seems the most subtle, ashamed of her sensuality, confident that she will succumb to the knight's temptations.
SALVADOR DALI - eccentric Spanish painter and one of the most recognizable figures in 20th century art. He was a maverick who still arouses extreme emotions. Some consider him a genius others a man with too big an ego.
