What is unique about Salvador Dalí art?

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What is unique about Salvador Dalí art is its dreamlike imagery, drawn from the depths of the unconscious. He used hyperrealism to convey Surrealist symbols and concepts that subvert accepted notions of reality. You can see this clearly reflected in what is perhaps his most recognizable painting, The Persistence of Memory (1931), in which he depicts the fluidity of time through melting clocks, their forms inspired by Camembert cheese melting in the sun. Although the scene is one of fantasy, Dalí rendered each object in a manner that makes the elements look as lifelike and realistic as possible rather than abstracting their forms. On 1stDibs, explore a selection of Salvador Dalí art.

1stDibs ExpertFebruary 13, 2024

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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dali -- Tancreds Oath from Marquis de Sade, 1969

Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph

By Salvador Dalí

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph Dimensions: 76.5 x 57 cm 1970 Signed in pencil and numbered Edition : /CXX References : Field 70-8 Salvador Dali Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figueras in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter, Ramon Pichot and later an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School. In 1923 his father bought his son his first printing press. Dali began to study art at the Royal Academy of Art in Madrid. He was expelled twice and never took the final examinations. His opinion was that he was more qualified than those who should have examined him. In 1928 Dali went to Paris where he met the Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He established himself as the principal figure of a group of surrealist artists grouped around Andre Breton, who was something like the theoretical "schoolmaster" of surrealism. Years later Breton turned away from Dali accusing him of support of fascism, excessive self-presentation and financial greediness. By 1929 Dali had found his personal style that should make him famous the world of the unconscious that is recalled during our dreams. The surrealist theory is based on the theories of the psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud. Recurring images of burning giraffes and melting watches...

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1970s Surrealist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph, 1970

Don Quichotte - Original etching (Field #65-7D)

By Salvador Dalí

Located in Paris, FR

Salvador DALI (1904-1989) Cinq portraits espagnols, Don Quichotte, 1966 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 35.5 x 28 cm (c. 14 x 11 in) REFERENCES : -...

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