Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Transfiguration
Year created: 1973
Medium: Hand-signed Intaglio Etching on Auvergne Paper
Signed by the artist
Edition: 98/100 Signed & Numbered Limited Edition on Auvergne Paper
Height (inches): 22.5 (image size)
Width (inches): 14.75 (image size)
Framed size : 41" Height x 32" Width
This piece is framed.
Includes a certificate of authenticity.
Description of piece: This iconic original Dali intaglio etching, Transfiguration, is hand-signed and numbered 98, from a limited edition of only 100 pieces on Auvergne paper. The quintessential Dali surrealist composition features a woman's face as the predominant figure, her vibrant red lips adding color to the more temperate monochromatic and gold coloring of the work. Unexpected details— figures, trees, roses, foliage, and golden hair that transforms in the composition into the distant roadway— open the piece to additional dimensions and illusions. The figure having undergone transfiguration, now an angel, occupies the right foreground of the etching, and holds a rose. The work is numbered in the lower left corner, and bears Dali's distinctive signature, prominently, hand-signed in pencil in the lower right area of the work.
With an image size of 22 1/2" in height x 14 3/4" in width, and framed size measuring 41" in height x 32" width, the work comes framed in a stately custom archival frame of gold lacquered wood, with white linen wrapped mat, gold filet and blue linen wrapped inner mat. Referenced in The Official Catalog of The Graphic Works of Salvador Dali By Albert Field, Reference Number #73-16, page 85, the work is additionally 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, "I myself am surrealism".
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