Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: Wailing Wall (from the Aliyah, The Rebirth of Israel Suite)
Year created: 1968
Medium: Hand-Signed Colored Lithograph on Arches Paper
Edition: Numbered 146/250 from the Limited Edition on Arches Paper
Height (inches): 27-3/8
Width (inches): 21-5/8
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: front
This piece is framed.
Includes a certificate of authenticity.
Description of piece:
This rare lithograph, Wailing Wall, by Salvador Dalí is hand-signed and numbered 146 of 250 impressions, from the limited edition of 250 pieces created on Arches paper. The total tirage is only 275 on all papers, with additional unnumbered artist proofs. A colored lithograph from an original mixed media painting using gouache, watercolors and India ink on paper, the work bears Dalí's signature, prominently, hand-signed in pencil, lower right. Dalí signed the artwork in New York.
Dalí's Wailing Wall is a visually eloquent and moving work, with glowing coloration. With an image area measuring 20-1/16" in height x 15-11/16" width, this important work is one of the collection of 25 artworks comprising Dalí's masterful and resplendent Aliyah, The Rebirth of Israel Suite.
Salvador Dalí worked for two years to create his “Aliyah, the Rebirth of Israel” Suite, conceived and created to commemorate the twenty year anniversary of the proclamation of the State of Israel. The artist took inspiration from the Old Testament as well as contemporary history, and created a series of 25 bold, dramatic, yet sensitive, paintings. The series of paintings captures the spirit of the Jewish people from the first days of exile and for nearly 2,000 years in the diaspora until their return to the soil of Israel. Embracing a wide spectrum of moods, from gaiety to deep drama to stark tragedy, the Suite encompasses triumph and joy. Portfolio No. 1 was presented as a gift to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem where an exhibit of the Aliyah Suite was held to coincide with the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Israel's independence.
Wailing Wall comes framed and ready for display in new custom framing of lustrous gold, with elegant detailing and archival matting. The framed size is 27-3/8” in height x 21-5/8” width.
Catalogued in Dalí expert Albert Field's authoritative Official Catalog of The Graphic Works of Salvador Dalí, Reference: 68-1, page 152,Wailing Wall was commissioned and published by Shorewood Press, New York. After the stones necessary for each lithograph were prepared, the required number of impressions were printed, following which the stones were destroyed, thereby assuring that these lithographs will never be reprinted. The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Artist bio:
Salvador Dalí, born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, (1904-1989) was a prominent artist born in Figueres, Spain, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, sixteen miles from the French border, in Catalonia. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media, and he is best known for his surrealist work, including his most well-known painting, The Persistence of Memory. Highly imaginative, Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an ancestry of descent from the medieval Moors. His individualistic nature and resistance to conformity made waves, including among his colleagues. In 1934, when Dalí was subjected to a "trial", in which he was formally expelled from the Surrealist group, Dalí retorted, "le Surrealisme c'est moi": "I myself am surrealism".
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