Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: Coeur de Fraises (Strawberry Heart)
Year created: 1970
Medium: Colored Lithograph with Original Drypoint Etching, on Rives Paper
Signed by the artist
Edition: 191/200 Signed & Numbered Limited Edition
Height (inches): 38
Width (inches): 31
This piece is framed.
Includes a certificate of authenticity.
Description of piece: This very rare lithograph with an original engraving, Coeur de Fraises (Strawberry Heart) by Salvador Dalí is hand-signed and numbered 191 from the limited edition tirage of 200, numbered 1-200, created on Rives paper. As further noted below, the work is designated as "SCARCE". The artwork bears Dalí's distinctive signature, hand-signed in pencil in the lower right margin of the work.
Visually striking, with vibrant colors and exquisite detail on a black background, the top portion of the work is a lithograph from original gouache, and holds a heart-shaped form— replete with green foliage, delicate strawberry buds and ripening fruit, and luscious fully ripened strawberries— a Dalí surrealist interpretation of a classic 19th century botanical print.
In the black field below the "Strawberry Heart" is a delicate original etching which spans the width of the artwork, and features additional botanicals, a horizon line, and the figure of a seated musician playing an instrument.
The work comes custom framed and ready for display in an elegant vintage frame of golden wood with matching golden wood fillet. The archival double mat - black for the wider outer mat, and blue for the narrow inner mat - were both chosen to accentuate the artwork's coloration. The framed size is 38" in height x 31" width, with a paper size measuring 27.75" in height x 21.75" width.
Coeur de Fraises (Strawberry Heart) was published by Jean Schneider, Basel; the lithograph printed by Matthieu and the drypoint etching by Rigal.
Referenced in Dalí expert Albert Field's authoritative Official Catalog of The Graphic Works of Salvador Dalí, Reference: 70-1 A, page 54, it is valued at $27,000 in the 2015 edition of The Print Price Guide to the Graphic Works of Salvador Dalí, by Bruce Hochman OS, where it is noted with the designation "SCARCE". 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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