Salvador Dali (1904-1989) L'ange de Port Ligat (Angel of Port Ligat), 1952.

Color lithograph, embossing; Velin d'Arches cotton paper, 49 x 62 cm in light passe - partout, 60 x 74 cm; numbered l.d. 188/300; signed in pencil p.d. Dali created an elaborate mythology around the figure of Gala, whom he imagined as both his artistic muse and a mysterious woman. In the composition on view, Gala is an angel in his native Port Ligat on the bay of Cadaques. Dali wrote in his autobiographical book "My Secret Life," Port Ligat was his place of mystical communion between himself, God and nature.