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SALVADOR DALÍ
The Reality of a Dream
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Pen and dark brown ink on cream wove paper, 1960. 349x458 mm; 13
3
/
4
x18 inches. Signed
and dated in ink, lower right recto, and countersigned in blue ink, verso.
With a photograph attestation signed by Mara Albaretto, Turin; and a photograph
authentication by Albert Field, NewYork, dated May 8, 1998.
Dalí (1904-1989), known for his significant contributions to the Surrealist movement,
frequently employed motifs such as soft figures, ants, and desolate landscapes to visualize
the unconscious mind (see also lot 529). The current work exemplifies Dalí’s grotesque
yet meticulous artistic style, which developed during the political tumult and Spanish
Civil War of the 1930s and 1940s and which he maintained over the course of his career.
This ink drawing recalls his 1940 oil painting
Daddy Longlegs of the Evening—Hope!
, now
in the Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, which includes a similar horse and
winged Nike/Victory of Samothrace motifs.
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