Salvador Dalí (after) - Rêve Causé par le Vol d’une abeille (…) Offset Lithograph - 80x60 - M&S licensed print

Offset lithograph after Salvador Dalí (*)
Reproduction of the work “Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening,” created by Dalí in 1944.
Printed on 250 g heavy Fine Art card stock.
Published by M&S.
Authorized copyright print.
Large format.

Specifications:

- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Year: 2004
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or displayed; it has always been kept in a professional art portfolio, so it is in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be handled and packed with care in reinforced cardboard packaging. Shipping will be registered and include a tracking number.

Shipping will also include transit insurance for the final value of the work, with a full refund in the event of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) (*) Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí was born in Figueres (Spain) in 1904. Between 1921 and 1925, he studied at the San Fernando Academy in Madrid, where he became friends with the poet Federico García Lorca and the filmmaker Buñuel. In 1925, the Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona organized his first solo exhibition, after which Picasso and Miró began to take an interest in his work.
Dalí was first influenced by Futurism, then by Cubism (1925). In April 1926, Dalí traveled to Paris for the first time, where he visited Picasso. On his second trip to Paris, in 1929, he attended the filming of Buñuel’s “An Andalusian Dog,” for which Dalí was a co-writer, and Miró introduced him to the Surrealist group. Dalí met André Breton and ……Gala, his future wife and muse (who was then married to Paul Éluard). He joined the Surrealist movement in 1929. Dalí became interested in Freud’s psychoanalytic theories and defined his “paranoiac-critical” method. During that period, he painted dreamlike, phantasmagorical spaces populated with symbolic elements: soft watches, crutches, fantastic animals, twisted figures. Dalí continued to take part in Surrealist events and exhibitions even after his expulsion in 1934. Dalí interpreted various famous works in his own way, such as Millet’s The Angelus, producing several versions of them. Breton nicknamed him “Avida Dollars”!
After the Spanish Civil War, he became politically committed in support of Franco. From the 1940s onward, he said he wanted to move closer to reality and returned to a more classical pictorial style, while continuing to imbue his works with his personal fantasy.
Recurring themes in both his paintings and his prints include women, sex, religion, and battles. Throughout his career, Dalí appeared in unusual spectacles, blending art and life and constantly putting himself on display. After ten years of effort, Dalí opened his own museum: the Dalí Theatre-Museum was inaugurated in 1974. Dalí’s final passion was “stereoscopic” painting (1975), and he presented his first “hyper-stereoscopic” work in New York in 1978.
Dalí, who described himself as a “cannibal,” “megalomaniac,” and “polymorphous pervert,” died in Barcelona (Spain) in 1989.