- Savador Dalí (after), authorized giclée on smooth matte paper with a velvety texture. (240gsm approx.). 2000s - Plate signed. - Stamp on verso. - Size: 45,5 x 61 cm. - Condition: excellent. Never framed, never exposed. - Salvador Dalí, born on May 11, 1904, in Figueras, Spain, was a Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker, known for his explorations of subconscious imagery. He studied art in Madrid and Barcelona, displaying unusual technical facility as a painter. His mature artistic style developed in the late 1920s after discovering Sigmund Freud’s writings on the erotic significance of subconscious imagery and affiliating with the Paris Surrealists. Dalí’s painting style matured rapidly from 1929 to 1937, producing paintings that made him the world’s best-known Surrealist artist. One of his significant works is “The Temptation of St. Anthony” (1946), which is housed in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. This painting depicts a desert-like landscape with Saint Anthony kneeling in the bottom left corner, holding up a cross. A parade of elephants led by a horse, representing Satan, approach St. Anthony, carrying symbolic objects representing temptation. In terms of the value of his works, Dalí’s paintings continue to perform well at auction. According to Mei Moses of famous auction house, the average compound annual return for Salvador Dalí resold at auction between 2003 and 2017 was 7.3%. A remarkable 88.2% of 153 such works increased in value. Some artists of similar importance, Basquiat, Picasso, Hockney, Lichtenstein, Miro, Banksy, Brainwash, Delaunay, Nara, Soulages, Lagasse, Ramos, Rothko, Lautrec, Klimt, Matisse, Hirst, Chagall, Hockney, Haring, Indiana, Mondrian, Groening, Coa, Warhol, Richter, Monroe, Kusama, Murakami, Testa, Villemot, Oldenburg, Hopper, Ripolles, Wesselmann, Magritte, Jenk, Orlinski, Wille, Rizzi, among others