Salvador Dalí
SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueras, Girona, 1904 - 1989).
"The Vision of the Angel, (1977).
Bronze. Copy 107/350.
Attached certificate issued by the artist.
Work reproduced in Robert & Nicolas Descharnes, Dali: The Hard and the Soft, Sculptures and Objects. Eccart, 2004. pg.240; ref. 617.
Slight restoration on one of the branches of the main figure.
With the Foundry stamp.
Signed and justified.
Measurements: 45 x 34 x 35 cm.
This work was conceived by Dalí in 1977. The artist made a gouache entitled "The Vision of the Angel", which was later materialised as a sculpture for the first time in 1984. This piece was cast in 1984 before the artist's death, although after his death several post-mortem runs were made. The sculpture retains the same elements as the original gouache, although the sobriety of the bronze gives the sculpture a more emphatic appearance. In this work Salvador Dalí reinvents a classical religious representation through an unusual surrealist interpretation. As symbolised in this sculpture, the strength and supremacy of God is represented by a thumb from which all life (the branches of the trees) emerges. To the right of this divine being is humanity: a man brimming with vitality. On the left, the presence of the Angel, representative of the meditative spirit, stands with his wing supported and resting on a crutch. Although man is united with God, the knowledge of God is supreme.
During his early years, Dalí discovered contemporary painting during a family visit to Cadaqués, where he met the family of Ramon Pichot, an artist who travelled regularly to Paris. Following Pichot's advice, Dalí began to study painting with Juan Núñez. In 1922, Dalí stayed at the famous Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid to begin studying Fine Arts at the San Fernando Academy. However, before his final exams in 1926, he was expelled for claiming that there was no one there fit to examine him. That same year Dalí travelled to Paris for the first time. There he met Picasso, and established certain formal characteristics that would become distinctive of all his work from then on. During this period Dalí held regular exhibitions in both Barcelona and Paris, and joined the Surrealist group based in the Parisian district of Montparnasse. The painter landed in America in 1934, thanks to the art dealer Julian Levy. Following his first solo exhibition in New York his international reputation was definitively consolidated, and from then on he showed his work and gave lectures all over the world. Most of his production is housed in the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueras, followed by the collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg (Florida), the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Salvador Dalí Gallery in Pacific Palisades (California), the Espace Dalí in Montmartre (Paris) and the Dalí Universe in London.
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Adjunta certificado expedido por el artista.
Obra reproducida en Robert & Nicolas Descharnes, Dali: The Hard and the Soft, Sculptures and Objects. Eccart, 2004. pg.240; ref. 617
Presenta leve restauración en uno de las ramas de la figura principal.
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SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueras, Girona, 1904 - 1989).
"The Vision of the Angel, (1977).
Bronze. Copy 107/350.
Attached certificate issued by the artist.
Work reproduced in Robert & Nicolas Descharnes, Dali: The Hard and the Soft, Sculptures and Objects. Eccart, 2004. pg.240; ref. 617.
Slight restoration on one of the branches of the main figure.
With the Foundry stamp.
Signed and justified.
Measurements: 45 x 34 x 35 cm.
This work was conceived by Dalí in 1977. The artist made a gouache entitled "The Vision of the Angel", which was later materialised as a sculpture for the first time in 1984. This piece was cast in 1984 before the artist's death, although after his death several post-mortem runs were made. The sculpture retains the same elements as the original gouache, although the sobriety of the bronze gives the sculpture a more emphatic appearance. In this work Salvador Dalí reinvents a classical religious representation through an unusual surrealist interpretation. As symbolised in this sculpture, the strength and supremacy of God is represented by a thumb from which all life (the branches of the trees) emerges. To the right of this divine being is humanity: a man brimming with vitality. On the left, the presence of the Angel, representative of the meditative spirit, stands with his wing supported and resting on a crutch. Although man is united with God, the knowledge of God is supreme.
During his early years, Dalí discovered contemporary painting during a family visit to Cadaqués, where he met the family of Ramon Pichot, an artist who travelled regularly to Paris. Following Pichot's advice, Dalí began to study painting with Juan Núñez. In 1922, Dalí stayed at the famous Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid to begin studying Fine Arts at the San Fernando Academy. However, before his final exams in 1926, he was expelled for claiming that there was no one there fit to examine him. That same year Dalí travelled to Paris for the first time. There he met Picasso, and established certain formal characteristics that would become distinctive of all his work from then on. During this period Dalí held regular exhibitions in both Barcelona and Paris, and joined the Surrealist group based in the Parisian district of Montparnasse. The painter landed in America in 1934, thanks to the art dealer Julian Levy. Following his first solo exhibition in New York his international reputation was definitively consolidated, and from then on he showed his work and gave lectures all over the world. Most of his production is housed in the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueras, followed by the collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg (Florida), the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Salvador Dalí Gallery in Pacific Palisades (California), the Espace Dalí in Montmartre (Paris) and the Dalí Universe in London.
COMMENTS
Adjunta certificado expedido por el artista.
Obra reproducida en Robert & Nicolas Descharnes, Dali: The Hard and the Soft, Sculptures and Objects. Eccart, 2004. pg.240; ref. 617
Presenta leve restauración en uno de las ramas de la figura principal.
Posee sello de la Fundición.
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
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