Black and white digital print with glossy coating. Hot surface lamination. Old copy of Misomex assembly (Film or CTP file replication machine -Computer to Plate- for the imposition of offset plates). Printer SERAG. Medium resolution. Later print, 2009. Size 19.7 x 15.5 cm, mounted on 30 x 24 cm wooden board. In very good condition. Label and notes on the back. Portrait of the Catalan painter by Philippe Halsman. The mustache passed through the New York Herald Tribune of February 26, 1954! We amuse ourselves with the detail of the mustache held by the hands of the two baseball players… Halsman photographed Dalí numerous times from 1948 onwards, notably for the Dalí Atomicus scene. In 1954, Dalí's mustache had miraculously grown. When the painter returned to New York, Halsman was surprised; the tips were above the eyebrows! He began to photograph the movements and expressions of the painter and his mustache… Dick Simon of Simon & Schuster, seeing these images, advised him to continue exploring this theme, and he would publish the photos in a book. Philippe Halsman (Latvian: Filips Halsmans; German: Philipp Halsmann; 2 May 1906 – 25 June 1979) was an American portrait photographer. He was born in Riga in the part of the Russian Empire which later became Latvia, and died in New York City. In 1941 Halsman met the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí; they began to collaborate in the late 1940s. The 1948 work Dalí Atomicus explores the idea of suspension, depicting three cats flying, a bucket of thrown water, and Dalí in mid air. The title of the photograph is a reference to Dalí's work Leda Atomica which can be seen in the right of the photograph behind the two cats. Halsman reported that it took 28 attempts before a satisfactory result was achieved. Halsman and Dalí eventually released a compendium of their collaborations in the 1954 book Dali's Mustache, which features 36 different views of the artist's distinctive mustache. Another famous collaboration between the two was In Voluptas Mors, a surrealistic portrait of Dalí beside a tableau vivant of seven nude women posed to look like a large skull. Halsman took three hours to arrange the models according to a sketch by Dalí. Shipping by la poste