Les huit péchés capiteaux
Salvador Dalí (Figueres 1904 - Figueres 1989)
Lot-No. 556
Proceeds : 3.400 €
1966/67. Eight coloured aquatint etchings, 19 x 14 cm, lo. ri. autographed Dalí, lo. le. num. 70/125, unframed in original case, each etching in a grey wrapper with picture title in German, French and English. - Multitalented spanish artist, main exponent of surrealism. He studied at the Madrid Academy a. was initially influenced by the 'pittura metafisica' of de Chirico and Carrà. During a Paris trip in 1929 he affiliated at the surrealist A. Breton. Freuds theories of interpretation of dreams fostered D.s inclination to the fantastac a. surreal. Some of his motifs are among the most famous and popular creations of modern art. Mus.: Figueres, St. Petersburg (Florida), Zürich a. others. Lit.: Etherington-Smith, Salber, Schiebler, Michler/Löpsinger 'S.D. - Catalogue raisoné of etchings and mixed-media prints, 1924-1980' (1994) a. others.
Salvador Dalí: Les huit péchés capiteaux
Salvador Dalí (Figueres 1904 - Figueres 1989)
Les huit péchés capiteaux
Lot-No. 556
Proceeds : 3.400 €
1966/67. Eight coloured aquatint etchings, 19 x 14 cm, lo. ri. autographed Dalí, lo. le. num. 70/125, unframed in original case, each etching in a grey wrapper with picture title in German, French and English. - Multitalented spanish artist, main exponent of surrealism. He studied at the Madrid Academy a. was initially influenced by the 'pittura metafisica' of de Chirico and Carrà. During a Paris trip in 1929 he affiliated at the surrealist A. Breton. Freuds theories of interpretation of dreams fostered D.s inclination to the fantastac a. surreal. Some of his motifs are among the most famous and popular creations of modern art. Mus.: Figueres, St. Petersburg (Florida), Zürich a. others. Lit.: Etherington-Smith, Salber, Schiebler, Michler/Löpsinger 'S.D. - Catalogue raisoné of etchings and mixed-media prints, 1924-1980' (1994) a. others.
