Daum France Salvador Dali Collection surreal sculpture, Salvador Dalí (Spanish 1904-1989), 'Debris d’une automobile donnant naissance à un cheval aveugle mordant un téléphone,' (Debris of an automobile giving birth to a blind horse biting a phone), executed in pate-de-verre and bronze, depicting a prancing horse in which one of the front legs has morphed into a fender and spoked wheel, the horse holds a vintage telephone hand set in its mouth, marked Dali and Daume France, and numbered 269/850, the whole resting on a rectangular brass base, horse 15.25"h x 17.5"l x 6"w; base 3"h x 17.5"l and 5.5"w. Condition: Chip to one of the back legs of the horse.
This sculpture is done after the 1938 Dali oil painting of the same name.