Etching on color lithograph, Arches high-grain velin paper (250g), 103 x 73 cm; 92 x 66 cm in light passe - partout
Signed in pencil by the author; limited edition of 4379/5000 pieces; publisher: Inter Art Senans, Basel, Switzerland; printed by Atelier Matthieu, Zürich; on the back a certificate [stamp] in French with information about the Swiss publisher Matthieu, Zurich.
Elements of the composition made in metal etching technique are very clearly visible on the back of the work. The print was created according to a collage created by Dali especially for this edition.
The work is described and reproduced in catalogs:
Salvador Dali. Catalogue Raisonné of Prints II Lithographs and Wood Engravings 1956-1980, Edited by Ralf Michler and Lutz W. Löpsinger, Prestel, Munich - New York 1995, p. 179, cat. 1587 and Catalog Raisonné Field page 233 and Catalog Raisonné Sahli #234.
The print in question is a great rarity, having been presented only twice on the Polish market by the auction houses Agra Art. and Desa Unicum.
Lit: Miłosz Kargol, Zuzanna Mortka, Cracow Auction House
The series of works "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969) by Salvador Dali consists of 12 color lithographs based on illustrations included in Pomologie française: recueil des plus beaux Fruits Cultivés en France by Pierre-Antoine Poiteau, a French botanical encyclopedia published in 1846.
In the series of lithographs "Flordali - Les Fruits," Salvador Dali brought together many motifs distinctive to his work. The freedom of composition and sensitivity to color influenced the decorativeness of the works, which in their form are the result of the artist's imagination's processing of botanical portraits of fruits. In the series "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969), fanciful, anthropomorphized plants carry humorous and erotic content, among other things. Salvador Dali saw in fruits a potential starting point for creating surreal visions that tell complex stories. Also present throughout the series are characteristic elements of Salvador Dali's paintings, such as the eye motif, the crow's feet and the figure that brings to mind Don Quixote.
Playing with the anthropomorphization of plants and fruits has its analogues in earlier eras of European art history, including paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Salvador Dali's works from the series "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969) were produced in multiple series, which differed in both edition and type of paper. It is worth noting that the elements present in the series "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969) were used by Salvador Dali in a later series of lithographic works from the 1980s titled "Flordali II."
