Salvador Dali lithograph: Drawers of Memory
Signed in lower right corner
Lithograph: 38" x 25"
Lithograph to mat: 37 1/4" x 24 1/4"
Frame: 48 5/8" x 36"
The paper bears the B.F.K. Rives watermark. There is no infinity symbol incorporated into the watermark--indicating the print is from before 1980.

Salvador Dali made the original drawing for this lithograph in 1965. The theme of human figures with drawers was present in many of Dalis other works, such as his sculpture Venus de Milo with Drawers (1936) and his painting Anthropomorphic Cabinet (1936). The theme was conceived as a homage to the psychoanalytic theories of Freud, whom Dali revered. Dali viewed his own subject matter as an allegorical means of tracing the countless narcissistic fragrances that waft up from every one of our drawers (as he put it). And he declared that the sole difference between immortal Greece and the present day was Sigmund Freud, who had discovered that the human body, purely neo-Platonic at the time of the Greeks, was now full of secret drawers which only psychoanalysis could pull open. Dali was familiar with the furniture figures made by the 17th century Italian Mannerist Giovanni Battista Bracelli, and they doubtless influenced his own figures with drawers. For Bracelli, though, furniture figures were a game played with geometry and space, sheer jeu desprit, while for Dali, three centuries later, a similar approach expressed the central, obsessive urge to understand human identity. (Source: all-art.org)

Good condition overall