After S. Dal, The Beloved Feeds Among the Lilies, 1971 for sale at Pamono

Description

The Beloved Feeds, 1971. Etching, with stencil and gilding, belonging to the Series “Song of Songs”. Sheet Dimensions: cm 56 x 37. Image dimensions; 40×25. Hand-signed by the artist on a lower margin. Numbered on the lower left margin in pencil. : 77/250, on Arches paper Edition of 250 prints on Arches paper plus 6 prints on parchment (I-VI), 44 prints on japanese paper (VII-L) and 20 our of commerce specimens designated “A-T”. Excellent Conditions. Reference: Salvador Dali, The Catalogue Raisonne of Etchings and Mixed-Media Prints, 1924-1980 Published by Prestel, p.193-194, n.477. The Song of Songs is a portfolio of 12 etchings. This is a beautifully drawn series inspired to the Song of Solomon, from the Old Testament. The protagonists of Song of Songs are a woman (Shulamite) and a man, and the poem suggests movement from courtship. Salvador Dal (1904-1989). In his paintings, sculptures, jewellery, and designs for furniture and movies, Dal explored a deeply erotic dimension, studying the writings of Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902) and Sigmund Freud, and conceiving what he called the paranoiac-critical method to abet his creative process. As he expressed it, in his painting he aimed to materialise the images of concrete irrationality with the most imperialistic fury of precision [] in order that the world of imagination and of concrete irrationality may be as objectively evident [] as that of the exterior world of phenomenal reality. He strove to make the world of his paintings persuasively real in his words, to make the irrational concrete.