After 50 Years Surrealism: Laurels of Happiness 1974 HS
Salvador Dali
Limited Edition Print : Lithograph
Size : 26x19.3 in | 66x49 cm
Edition : From the Edition of 195
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🔥1974 Limited Edition Hand Signed Lithograph - Blue Chip - 4 Watchers - Inquire $$$$$$$
Hand Signed
Year1974
Hand SignedLower Right
Condition Mint
Not Framed
Purchased fromPrivate Collector 2021
Story / Additional InfoThis piece is referenced in The Official Catalog of The Graphic Works of Salvador Dali by Albert Field #74-8D.
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LID20331
Salvador Dali - Spain
Art Brokerage: Park West Artist: Salvador Dali Spanish Artist: Salvador Dalà was a renowned Spanish Surrealist artist known for his enigmatic paintings of dreamscapes and religious themes. The Persistence of Memory (1931), arguably his best known work, visually manifests the strangeness of time by depicting clocks melting in an idyllic landscape. "One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams," he once reflected. Born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalà i Domènech on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he displayed a great aptitude for the visual arts as a teenager. Three years after his first exhibition at the age of 14, he enrolled at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. At school, he emulated many contemporary styles but also the works of Johannes Vermeer and Diego Velázquez. During his visits to Paris in the late 1920s, he was introduced to the Surrealist movement by René Magritte and Joan Miró. Though the concept of Surrealism was new to him, Dalà was already well versed in the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. Dabbling in various projects throughout his long career, in 1942 he published the book The Secret Life of Salvador DalÃ. A mixture of self-aggrandizing confessions and sadistic fantasies about his childhood, the book further outlined the artist's outlandish persona. However, his pronounced sense of ego was not always unfounded, as evinced in his works inclusion in Alfred Hitchcock's famous dream sequence from the film Spellbound (1945). Dalà died on January 23, 1989 in his hometown of Figueres, Spain. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, among others. Listings wanted.