Salvador Dali - Homage to Marcel Duchamp
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Original patinated bronze multiple sculpture , 1973, signed by the artist in the bronze, with wooden box of issue with a Dali signature on the front covered by a crown.
Size: 15.5 cms (Height)
Literature: See “Sculptures and objects : Dali - the Hard and the Soft - by Robert and Nicolas Descharnes. Pages 162 - Reference 451
Note: This item comes from the celebrated “Clot Collection” made after the artist had signed a contract with Isidoro Clot in 1973. This particular bronze is Dali’s ironical answer to the celebrated painting “Nude Descending a staircase” painted in 1911 by the Master of the Dada movement and father of Surrealism, Marcel Duchamp. In 1912 Duchamp exhibited “Nude Descending a staircase Numero 2” at the Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona. Perhaps Dali saw it or perhaps he read what the critics had to say in the newspapers. Dali could not have been more pleased to render hommage to his friend - and greatly amused himself by creating the realistic body of this woman ascending with large steps the spirals of a shell. In mythical stores Ammonites, the spiral, is a number. The woman searches for a never ending infinite. Wingless she climbs the steps of the never ending spiral. From the beginning she knew that she would never reach the top but that going up and on is more important then arriving. The eternally spiraling shell is the staircase of her fate.
Authenticity: We have a certificate of authenticity from Artco, France
Edition: FRA 134/350 marked on the bronze
Size: 15.5 cms (Height)
Literature: See “Sculptures and objects : Dali - the Hard and the Soft - by Robert and Nicolas Descharnes. Pages 162 - Reference 451
Note: This item comes from the celebrated “Clot Collection” made after the artist had signed a contract with Isidoro Clot in 1973. This particular bronze is Dali’s ironical answer to the celebrated painting “Nude Descending a staircase” painted in 1911 by the Master of the Dada movement and father of Surrealism, Marcel Duchamp. In 1912 Duchamp exhibited “Nude Descending a staircase Numero 2” at the Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona. Perhaps Dali saw it or perhaps he read what the critics had to say in the newspapers. Dali could not have been more pleased to render hommage to his friend - and greatly amused himself by creating the realistic body of this woman ascending with large steps the spirals of a shell. In mythical stores Ammonites, the spiral, is a number. The woman searches for a never ending infinite. Wingless she climbs the steps of the never ending spiral. From the beginning she knew that she would never reach the top but that going up and on is more important then arriving. The eternally spiraling shell is the staircase of her fate.
Authenticity: We have a certificate of authenticity from Artco, France
Edition: FRA 134/350 marked on the bronze
Condition
excellent - in box of issue
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Salvador Dali - Homage to Marcel Duchamp
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