Salvador Dalí, in full Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech, was born May 11, 1904, in Figueras, Spain, and died on January 23, 1989. This Spanish surrealist painter and printmaker was known for his explorations of subconscious imagery.
As an art student in Madrid and Barcelona, Dalí absorbed a number of artistic styles and displayed unusual technical dexterity as a painter. It was not until the late 1920s that two events brought about the development of his mature artistic style. First, his discovery of Sigmund Freud's writings on the erotic significance of subconscious imagery. Second, his affiliation with the Paris Surrealists, a group of artists and writers who sought to establish a “greater reality" of the human subconscious over reason. To evoke images from his subconscious mind, Dalí partook in self-induced hallucinatory states, a process he described as “paranoiac-critical".
Upon Dalí establishing this method, his painting style matured at an extraordinary rate. Thanks to Rene Magritte and Joan Miró, from 1929 to 1937, Dalí had produced the artworks that had earned him the title of the world's best-known Surrealist artist. He depicted a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed, or otherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational manner.
The famous artist dabbled in other media as well. Alongside Spanish director Luis Buñuel, Dalí made two Surrealist films—Un Chien Andalou (1928; An Andalusian Dog) and L'Âge d'Or (1930; The Golden Age)—that are similarly filled with grotesque but highly suggestive images. Dalí also wrote books; perhaps the most interesting and revealing being The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942-44).
By the late 1930s, Dalí switched to painting in a more academic style under the influence of the Renaissance painter Raphael. By doing so, he was consequently expelled from the Surrealist movement. Thereafter, he spent much of his time designing theatre sets, fashionable shop interiors, jewelry, as well as exhibiting his genius for flamboyant self-promotional stunts in the United States, where he lived from 1940 to 1955.
From 1950 to 1970, Dalí painted many works with religious themes, although he continued to explore erotic subjects, childhood memories, and themes surrounding his wife, Gala. Despite their technical accomplishments, Dalí's later paintings are not as highly regarded as his earlier works.
Don Quichotte - Don Quichotte à la tête qui éclate, 1957
41 x 33 x 0.2 cm
Print
$8,936
Les songes drôlatiques de Pantagruel - V-Bossu à la cornemuse nourrissant un crocodile, 1973
76 x 54 cm
Print
$7,447
Les songes drôlatiques de Pantagruel - P-Le jongleur de cornes préservatrices, 1973
76 x 54 cm
Print
$7,447
Les songes drôlatiques de Pantagruel - L-Cuisinier pâtissier géant, 1973
76 x 54 cm
Print
$7,447
Les songes drôlatiques de Pantagruel - C- Heaume de la naissance et de la mort, 1973
76 x 54 cm
Print
$7,447
Les songes drôlatiques de Pantagruel - I-Figure au champignon sur oiseau phénix denté, 1973
76 x 54 cm
Print
$7,447
Les songes drôlatiques de Pantagruel - D- Grand mongol à trompe d'éléphant, 1973
76 x 54 cm
Print
$7,447
Dix-recettes de l'immortalité - L'immortalité tétraédrique du cube, 1973
39 x 57.5 x 0.1 cm
Print
$8,191
Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine - Les animaux malades de la peste, 1974
58 x 76 cm
Print
2,500 - $ 5,000
Le Tricorne - Quand s'est passé cette histoire, 1959
32.2 x 22.4 x 0.3 cm
Print
$4,468
Debris of an Automobile Giving Birth to a Blind Horse Biting a Telephone, 1988
39 x 44.5 x 10 cm
Sculpture
$25,319
Conquête du Cosmos – The caduseus of Mars nourished by the ball of fire of Jupiter, 1974
100 x 70 cm
Print
15,000 - $ 25,000
Bacon- Dali: erotic metamorphoses
From December 1, 2019 To December 1, 2019
La femme visible
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