Salvador DALI (1904-1989), La Vierge et le rhinocéros, (The Virgin and the Rhinoceros) from the series Les Vitraux (Stained Glass),1974.

Color lithograph, Arches velin paper 65 x 48 cm (composition); edition of 250 copies plus 15 copies. E.A. ( Epreuve d'artiste - artist's proof); signed in pencil by the author p. d. and numbered l.d. 103/250; Publisher Jacques Carpentier&Simeon Weintrop (Editions Celami); lithograph printing - Atelier Grapholith in Paris.Lit. by Ralf Michler, Lutz W. Löpsinger, Salvador Dali: Catalogue Raisonné of Lithographs and Wood Engravings 1956- 1980, Prestel Publishing Munich - New York 1995, cat. no. 1445;Albert Field raisonné 74-5.The series, which has the original title "Senza tempo, Les Vitraux, 24 temi dal surrealismo" (Above Time,Vitraux, 24 Surrealist Themes), was created in 1974. In 24 compositions, Dali showed his surrealist visions on many aspects of human life. In 1979, the Vatican published an album containing reproductions of all 24 lithographs of the series, and Luigi Testaferrata included interpretations told to him by Salvador Dali for each of the 24 Stained Glass compositions, in addition to an extensive discussion of Dali's work.The Virgin and the Rhinoceros according to Dali (transcribed by L.Testaferrate) - a rhinoceros a huge, gentle animal in love with one companion - a father who awaits with a tenderness tougher than your skin, sharper than your horned nose, lighter than your heavy trot for 15,for 18 months the birth of your only son: Aestia, who runs on very white bones that will one day be broken into white dust by love potions. Green, blue and yellow rhinoceros like a calm clown, your horns of purity shoot toward the light,penetrate the heavens of the sky following the slit of the solar list like pulsations of love, and the virgin wrapped in blond hair waits for you, faithful rhinoceros, childlike rhinoceros like a clown of all colors, witty rhinoceros in your quick movements to start the life of the world anew.The luminaires shown in the visuals are for reference only and do not constitute a commercial offer.