Original color lithograph, Arches velin paper of high weight dimensions: 92 x 65 cm in light of passe - partout of 110 x 82 cm; limited edition of 3653/5000 pieces; signed on the plate, publisher: Inter Art Senans, Basel, Switzerland; made in : Atelier Matthieu, Zürich; on back p.d. certificate with description of edition and piece number inscribed in crayon: No 3'653/5000.
Lithograph according to a collage created especially for this purpose by Salvador Dali in 1981.
The work described and reproduced in the catalogs:
- Field catalog raisonné page 233
- Michler & Lopsinger catalog raisonné #1587
- Sahli catalog raisonné #234
The print in question is a great rarity, having been presented only twice on the Polish market by auction houses in Poland.
Lit: Miłosz Kargol, Zuzanna Mortka, Cracow Auction House
The series of works "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969) by Salvador Dali consists of 12 color lithographs based on illustrations included in Pierre-Antoine Poiteau's Pomologie française: recueil des plus beaux Fruits Cultivés en France, a French botanical encyclopedia published in 1846.
In the "Flordali" series of lithographs, Salvador Dali brought together many motifs distinctive to his work. The freedom of composition and sensitivity to color influenced the decorativeness of the works, which in their form are the result of the artist's imagination's processing of botanical portraits of fruit. In the series "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969), fanciful, anthropomorphized plants carry humorous and erotic content, among other things. Salvador Dali saw fruit as a potential starting point for creating surreal visions that tell complex stories. Also present throughout the series are characteristic elements of Salvador Dali's paintings, such as the eye motif, the crow's feet and the figure that brings to mind Don Quixote.
Playing with the anthropomorphization of plants and fruits has its analogues in earlier eras of European art history, including paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Salvador Dali's works from the series "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969) were produced in multiple series, which differed in both edition and type of paper. It is worth noting that the elements present in the series "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969) were used by Salvador Dali in a later series of lithographic works from the 1980s titled "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969). "Flordali II."
The frames shown in the visualizations are for illustrative purposes and do not constitute a commercial offer.
