Bronze, bronze-gold-colored patina France, 1981 Salvador Dal?? (1904-1989) ‚Äì Spanish painter, graphic artist and sculptor Signed on the right hind leg ‚ÄòDali‚Äô Numbered ‚Äò96/350‚Äô Copyright stamp ‚ÄòVENTURI ARTE‚Äô and on the lower side of the small clock at the stick ‚Äò(C)(...) AG-84 (...) DALI‚Äô ' On a black marble plinth With removable saddle and stick with small clock Catalog raisonn?©: Descharnes 650 - SCULPTURE SIZE: 22" Length x 6" Width x 17-1/2" Height. - BASE SIZE: BASE: 20-1/2" Length x 6-3/4" Width x 1-3/4" Height. - CONDITION: Very good. The sculpture with all its parts is in very good condition with normal minimal traces of wear. The bronze sculpture with the melting clock as a saddle illustrates Dal??‚Äôs preoccupation with time and reminds of the transience of existence; the auction record for the sculpture in this color version is currently placed at more than $30,000 The bronze horse modeled by Salvador Dal?? is banking up in front of a little stick with one of Dal??‚Äôs melting clocks. On the back of the horse is also one of the melting clocks of Dal??, which is his most famous symbol since the painting 'La persistance de la m?©moire' (1931). The horse is inserted into a black marble plinth. The horse, the ‚Äòclock saddle‚Äô as well as the small stick can be removed separately. The design was conceived in 1980 and cast by Venturi Arte one year later. The bronze sculpture 'Le cheval ?† la montre molle' illustrates Dal??‚Äôs preoccupation with time and reminds of the transience of existence. The bronze sculpture is signed on the right hind leg ‚ÄòDali‚Äô and numbered ‚Äò96/350‚Äô. Copyright stamp ‚ÄòVENTURI ARTE‚Äô. Its hard to make out all that is engraved on the inside lower side of the small clock on the stick, here is what we can can see, "(C)(...) AG-84 (...) DALI". Salvador Dal?? (1904-1989) The Spanish painter, printmaker and sculptor Salvador Dal?? was one of the main representatives of Surrealism. 1929 Dal?? joined the Surrealists in Paris. Today his dreamy works, influenced from the unconscious are in collections of important international museums. Salvador Dal?? is known as one of the most famous artists of the 20th century.

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