Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: The Dreamer (from Historia de Don Quichotte de la Mancha Suite)
Year created: 1981
Medium: Limited Edition Hand-Signed Etching, Aquatint & Color on Arches Paper
Signed by the artist
Edition: 200/300 on Arches Paper
Height (inches): 30
Width (inches): 22.5
This piece is unframed
Includes a certificate of authenticity
Description of piece:
This rare original etching, The Dreamer, by Salvador Dalí is hand-signed and numbered 200, from a limited edition of 300 pieces created on Arches paper. An etching with aquatint and color additions, this work bears Dalí's signature, prominently and large, hand-signed in pencil in the wide lower margin of the artwork. The work also bears the embossed blind stamp "DALART N.V. Copyright 1981".
From Dalí's Historia de Don Quichotte de la Mancha Suite, The Dreamer combines Dalí's surrealistic imagery and masterful composition with fine coloration and unexpected details: Don Quixote's finely rendered figure wears a suit of armor embellished with a second figure as a breastplate ornamentation. A single bird adorns the sky; all set within an iconic Dalí-esque backdrop of open plain and distant mountains. The artwork measures 30" in height x 22.5" width.
The Dreamer is catalogued in Dalí expert Albert Field's authoritative Official Catalog of The Graphic Works of Salvador Dalí, Reference 80-1 A, page 144. Published by Levine and Levine in New York, the artwork is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Artist bio:
Salvador Dalí, born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, (1904-1989) was a prominent artist born in Figueres, Spain, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, sixteen miles from the French border, in Catalonia. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media, and he is best known for his surrealist work, including his most well-known painting, The Persistence of Memory. Highly imaginative, Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an ancestry of descent from the medieval Moors. His individualistic nature and resistance to conformity made waves, including among his colleagues. In 1934, when Dalí was subjected to a "trial", in which he was formally expelled from the Surrealist group, Dalí retorted, "le Surrealisme c'est moi": "I myself am surrealism".