Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989) After Fifty Years of
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After Fifty Years of Surrealism
1974
twelve drypoints with portfolio
each signed in pencil l.r., and numbered A56/195 l.l.
portfolio numbered A56/195 (English edition) and artist signed
printed on the presses of Ateliers Rigal on Velin d'Arches paper, with watermark
published by Transworld Art, SA, Fribourg, Switzerland
each print framed
15.75 x 11.75 in. (each plate), 29.5 x 24.5 in. (each frame), 28.25 x 21.75 in. (portfolio)
The prints and texts are titled as follows:
Picasso: A Ticket to Glory
A Shattering Entrance Upon the American Stage
Gala's Castle
Gala's Godly Back
The Great Inquisitor Expels the Saviour
The Curse Overthrown
The Museum of Genius and Fancy
God, Time, Space, and the Pope
The Divine Core of Gala
Flung Out like a Fag-End by the Big Wigs
The Laurels of Happiness
Freud with a Snail Head
This important portfolio by Dali traces the career of the artist by documenting milestones of his private life as well as landmarks of the Surrealist movement. It is at once the continuation and culmination of André Breton's 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, further establishing Dali as one of the movement's most crucial contributors. Accompanying texts by André Parinaud are enclosed in portfolio case.
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