Surrealist Figurative Sculptures

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Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Title: Surrealist Piano Year: 1984 Medium: Bronze Edition: 350, plus proofs Size: 26.3 x 15.7 x 12 inches Condition:...

The soft pocket watch is the most recognizable Dalinian image and the artist chose to portray it consistently throughout his lifetime. Dalí became obsessed with the concept of time and used the this image in many of his works. Dalí brings to this sculpture a dynamism, where the watch appears to be literally “dancing”. Unrestrained by the rigid laws of a watch, time, for Dalí, moves to the rhythm of a perpetual dance, speeding up, slowly down, stretching out, liquefying. The watch illustrates an important theme in Dalí’s art;the contrast between the hard and the soft, a central preoccupation of the artist. Dalí flips reality, taking the familiar image of a watch which is hard, solid and precise and inverts its characteristics. It is now the opposite, becoming soft, inaccurate, time bends to individual meanings. Again in this sculpture, the unexpected softness of the watch contrasts with the hardened sturdy tree trunk upon which the clock rests. Some say that Dalí represents in his watches Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity of space and time; the dancing watch illustrating the concept of movement through time. Date: conceived in 1979 and first cast in 1984 Technique: lost wax process Edition size: 350 + 35 EA (artist proof) Patina: green Maquette: original gouache, ʺDance of Timeʺ, 1979 Foundry: Perseo Descharnes References: Dalí: The Hard and the Soft, Sculptures & Objects. Eccart, 2004. pg. 248 ref. 638 Authenticity: Artist signed in the mold, Foundry Certificate and Editor/Dealer Certificate* *Both Mr. A. Reynolds Morse, President and Founder of the Salvador Museum in Florida (now deceased), and Mr. Robert Descharnes (now deceased), world renowned Dalí expert and author of the only catalogue raisonée of Salvador Dalí sculpture, have officially written their comments exclusively for use on the certificate. BIOGRAPHY OF ARTIST Salvador Dali was born in May, 1904 in the small agricultural town of Figueres, Spain. The son of a prosperous notary. The young Dali attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Early recognition of Dali’s talent came with his first one-man show in Barcelona in 1925. Dali held his first one-man show in Paris in 1926 where he also joined the surrealists, led by former Dadaist Andre Breton. Dali soon became a leader of the Surrealist Movement. His painting, The Persistance of Memory...

The soft pocket watch is the most recognizable Dalinian image and the artist chose to portray it consistently throughout his lifetime. Dalí became obsessed with the concept of time and used the this image in many of his works. Dalí brings to this sculpture a dynamism, where the watch appears to be literally “dancing”. Unrestrained by the rigid laws of a watch, time, for Dalí, moves to the rhythm of a perpetual dance, speeding up, slowly down, stretching out, liquefying. The watch illustrates an important theme in Dalí’s art;the contrast between the hard and the soft, a central preoccupation of the artist. Dalí flips reality, taking the familiar image of a watch which is hard, solid and precise and inverts its characteristics. It is now the opposite, becoming soft, inaccurate, time bends to individual meanings. Again in this sculpture, the unexpected softness of the watch contrasts with the hardened sturdy tree trunk upon which the clock rests. Some say that Dalí represents in his watches Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity of space and time; the dancing watch illustrating the concept of movement through time. Date: conceived in 1979 and first cast in 1984 Technique: lost wax process Edition size: 350 + 35 EA (artist proof) Patina: green Maquette: original gouache, ʺDance of Timeʺ, 1979 Foundry: Perseo Descharnes References: Dalí: The Hard and the Soft, Sculptures & Objects. Eccart, 2004. pg. 248 ref. 638 Authenticity: Artist signed in the mold, Foundry Certificate and Editor/Dealer Certificate* *Both Mr. A. Reynolds Morse, President and Founder of the Salvador Museum in Florida (now deceased), and Mr. Robert Descharnes (now deceased), world renowned Dalí expert and author of the only catalogue raisonée of Salvador Dalí sculpture, have officially written their comments exclusively for use on the certificate. BIOGRAPHY OF ARTIST Salvador Dali was born in May, 1904 in the small agricultural town of Figueres, Spain. The son of a prosperous notary. The young Dali attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Early recognition of Dali’s talent came with his first one-man show in Barcelona in 1925. Dali held his first one-man show in Paris in 1926 where he also joined the surrealists, led by former Dadaist Andre Breton. Dali soon became a leader of the Surrealist Movement. His painting, The Persistance of Memory...

Religious imagery fascinated and intrigued Dalí throughout his lifetime. For Dalí, angels expressed grace, nobility and lightness. Dalí once said “nothing is more stimulating than the idea of an angel!”. The face and trumpet in the sculpture, echo the Cubist style pioneered by Pablo Picasso, who Dalí admired. It is interesting that Cubism and Surrealism co-exist in this sculpture. From the 1940s, when Dalí began weaving strong religious themes into his artworks, angels appear frequently in his oeuvre. Dalí rejected his family’s Catholicism early in life, only to re-embrace it again in later years. For Dalí, angels represented divine awareness, purity, protection and illumination. The key element of the sculpture is the trumpet, it links heaven and earth, bringing and reflecting divine light. The angel’s wings are in perfect equilibrium, referencing Dalí’s obsession with geometrical precision. This sculpture embodies Dalí’s idea of heavenly achievement and aspiration. Date: conceived 1976 and first cast in 1984 Technique: lost wax process Edition size: 350 + 35 EA (artist proof) Patina: blue Maquette: original drawing, ʺTriumphant Angelʺ, 1976 Foundry: Perseo Descharnes References: Dalí: The Hard and the Soft, Sculptures & Objects. Eccart, 2004. pg. 254 ref. 652 Authenticity: Artist signed in the mold, Foundry Certificate and Editor/Dealer Certificate* *Both Mr. A. Reynolds Morse, President and Founder of the Salvador Museum in Florida (now deceased), and Mr. Robert Descharnes (now deceased), world renowned Dalí expert and author of the only catalogue raisonée of Salvador Dalí sculpture, have officially written their comments exclusively for use on the certificate. BIOGRAPHY OF ARTIST Salvador Dali was born in May, 1904 in the small agricultural town of Figueres, Spain. The son of a prosperous notary. The young Dali attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Early recognition of Dali’s talent came with his first one-man show in Barcelona in 1925. Dali held his first one-man show in Paris in 1926 where he also joined the surrealists, led by former Dadaist Andre Breton. Dali soon became a leader of the Surrealist Movement. His painting, The Persistance of Memory...

Echoing Dalí's 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, in which the famous melted watch appears for the first time, this sculpture is an ingenious creation - full of symbolism and hidden meanings. Dalí became obsessed with the flow of time and portrays the watch as soft, a type of symbolism he reserved for those objects he loathed. “The mechanical object was to become my worst enemy, and as for watches, they would have to be soft, or not be at all!” The soft watch liquefies lamentably over the tree forming a double image. Tilting ones head to the left a hidden image appears; the watch face changes into the artists profile, an eye, a pointed nose and the 9 suggestive of Dalí’s moustache. Dalí enjoyed surprising people and encouraged them to participate in his art. The shape of limp clock immediately recalls Dalí’s 1929 work The Great Masturbator, a self-portrait with a distorted long head in profile looking downward. This peculiar shape is based on a specific rock formation in his hometown, emphasizing the influence of Dalí’s native landscape in his art, besides the olive tree, another significant image for Dalí. The melting watch...

The soft pocket watch is the most recognizable Dalinian image and the artist chose to portray it consistently throughout his lifetime. Dalí became obsessed with the concept of time and used the this image in many of his works. Dalí brings to this sculpture a dynamism, where the watch appears to be literally “dancing”. Unrestrained by the rigid laws of a watch, time, for Dalí, moves to the rhythm of a perpetual dance, speeding up, slowly down, stretching out, liquefying. The watch illustrates an important theme in Dalí’s art;the contrast between the hard and the soft, a central preoccupation of the artist. Dalí flips reality, taking the familiar image of a watch which is hard, solid and precise and inverts its characteristics. It is now the opposite, becoming soft, inaccurate, time bends to individual meanings. Again in this sculpture, the unexpected softness of the watch contrasts with the hardened sturdy tree trunk upon which the clock rests. Some say that Dalí represents in his watches Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity of space and time; the dancing watch illustrating the concept of movement through time. Date: conceived in 1979 and first cast in 1984 Technique: lost wax process Edition size: 350 + 35 EA (artist proof) Patina: green Maquette: original gouache, ʺDance of Timeʺ, 1979 Foundry: Perseo Descharnes References: Dalí: The Hard and the Soft, Sculptures & Objects. Eccart, 2004. pg. 248 ref. 638 Authenticity: Artist signed in the mold, Foundry Certificate and Editor/Dealer Certificate* *Both Mr. A. Reynolds Morse, President and Founder of the Salvador Museum in Florida (now deceased), and Mr. Robert Descharnes (now deceased), world renowned Dalí expert and author of the only catalogue raisonée of Salvador Dalí sculpture, have officially written their comments exclusively for use on the certificate. BIOGRAPHY OF ARTIST Salvador Dali was born in May, 1904 in the small agricultural town of Figueres, Spain. The son of a prosperous notary. The young Dali attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Early recognition of Dali’s talent came with his first one-man show in Barcelona in 1925. Dali held his first one-man show in Paris in 1926 where he also joined the surrealists, led by former Dadaist Andre Breton. Dali soon became a leader of the Surrealist Movement. His painting, The Persistance of Memory...

The soft pocket watch is the most recognizable Dalinian image and the artist chose to portray it consistently throughout his lifetime. Dalí became obsessed with the concept of time and used the this image in many of his works. Dalí brings to this sculpture a dynamism, where the watch appears to be literally “dancing”. Unrestrained by the rigid laws of a watch, time, for Dalí, moves to the rhythm of a perpetual dance, speeding up, slowly down, stretching out, liquefying. The watch illustrates an important theme in Dalí’s art;the contrast between the hard and the soft, a central preoccupation of the artist. Dalí flips reality, taking the familiar image of a watch which is hard, solid and precise and inverts its characteristics. It is now the opposite, becoming soft, inaccurate, time bends to individual meanings. Again in this sculpture, the unexpected softness of the watch contrasts with the hardened sturdy tree trunk upon which the clock rests. Some say that Dalí represents in his watches Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity of space and time; the dancing watch illustrating the concept of movement through time. Date: conceived in 1979 and first cast in 1984 Technique: lost wax process Edition size: 350 + 35 EA (artist proof) Patina: green Maquette: original gouache, ʺDance of Timeʺ, 1979 Foundry: Perseo Descharnes References: Dalí: The Hard and the Soft, Sculptures & Objects. Eccart, 2004. pg. 248 ref. 637 Authenticity: Artist signed in the mold, Foundry Certificate and Editor/Dealer Certificate* *Both Mr. A. Reynolds Morse, President and Founder of the Salvador Museum in Florida (now deceased), and Mr. Robert Descharnes (now deceased), world renowned Dalí expert and author of the only catalogue raisonée of Salvador Dalí sculpture, have officially written their comments exclusively for use on the certificate. BIOGRAPHY OF ARTIST Salvador Dali was born in May, 1904 in the small agricultural town of Figueres, Spain. The son of a prosperous notary. The young Dali attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Early recognition of Dali’s talent came with his first one-man show in Barcelona in 1925. Dali held his first one-man show in Paris in 1926 where he also joined the surrealists, led by former Dadaist Andre Breton. Dali soon became a leader of the Surrealist Movement. His painting, The Persistance of Memory...

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Salvador Dali - Christ - Signed Silver-Gilt Necklace 1970 This exclusive necklace is a creation by the hands of famous artist Salvador Dali. The necklace is a symbol from one of his ...

Salvador Dali - Christ - Signed Silver Necklace 1970 This exclusive necklace is a creation by the hands of famous artist Salvador Dali. The necklace is a symbol from one of his paint...