Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: Manhattan Skyline
Year created: 1976
Medium: Original Lithograph on Japon Paper
Edition: 73/100 Hand-Signed and Numbered Limited Edition, on Japon Paper
Height (inches): 40-1/4
Width (inches): 31-1/2
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: front
This piece is framed.
Includes a certificate of authenticity.
Description of piece:
This spectacular original lithograph by Salvador Dalí is hand-signed by Dalí in an especially large signature. Created by Dalí without borders, the work’s lavish and extravagantly-colored image extends to the full paper size. It is hand-signed and numbered, in white pencil, within the artwork’s image area.
Numbered 73 of only 100 impressions created on delicate Japon paper, the work has been freshly framed and comes ready for display in a custom-made lustrous black wood gallery frame; the artwork is floated within a double mat of jet black and crisp white, to fully display the entire work. The framed size measures 40-1/4” in height x 31-1/2” width.
Catalogued in Dalí expert Albert Field's authoritative Official Catalog of The Graphic Works of Salvador Dalí, Reference 76-6 W, page 131, Manhattan Skyline was published by Levine and Levine.
Manhattan Skyline is listed as 'Scarce'. The original plates are presumed destroyed, and the total tirage (including all paper types and Epreuves d’Artiste) is 290. The work 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".