Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: Iris (+ Eyes) Les Chevaux, from the Florals Suite
Year created: 1972
Medium: Hand-Signed Colored Lithograph, with Original Engraving on Heavy Arches Watermarked Paper
Edition: Rare EA (Epreuve d'Artiste / Artist's Proof) from Limited Edition on Heavy Arches Paper
Height (inches): 33-1/4
Width (inches): 23-1/4
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: front
This piece is framed.
Includes a certificate of authenticity.
Description of piece:
This rare lithograph, with an original engraving, Iris (+ Eyes) Les Chevaux, by Salvador Dalí is hand-signed and inscribed EA ("Epreuve d'artiste" - Artist's Proof), from the limited edition of only 350 numbered prints, with an additional 25 EA impressions, for a total tirage of 375. In this vibrant and highly detailed artwork, Dalí's colored lithograph is complimented by his original delicate engraving in the lower area of his composition. The designation "EA" is written in pencil in the lower left margin, and the artwork bears Dalí's distinctive signature, prominently, hand-signed in pencil in the lower right margin of the work.
Iris (+ Eyes) Les Chevaux, from Dalí's Florals Suite, is at once delicate and bold, an iconic Dalí surrealist interpretation reminiscent of a classic 19th century botanical print, with beautiful coloration and unexpected detail. Colorful iris blooms, resplendent with eyes at their center, are juxtaposed with engravings of "Les Chevaux" (horses) and iconic stylized Dalí figures. A sea and mountains on the horizon, a boat, and a beaming sun complete the work.
The artwork comes framed and ready for display in a custom black gallery frame with an archival, acid-free white mat. The framed size is 33.25" in height x 23.25" width. Created on Heavy Arches watermarked paper, the paper size measures 27.75" in height x 21.875" width, with an image size measuring 21.5" height x 15.5" width.
Iris (+ Eyes) Les Chevaux was published by Editions Graphiques Internationales, Paris; the lithograph printed by Draeger and the engraving applied by Rigal. The reverse of the artwork bears the publisher's authenticating stamp.
Catalogued in Dalí expert Albert Field's authoritative Official Catalog of The Graphic Works of Salvador Dalí, Reference 72-7 N, pages 74-75, Iris (+ Eyes) Les Chevaux 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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