Salvador Dali (SPANISH, 1904-1989)
Les Caprices de Goya
Four color etchings with aquatint on prints of Goya Caprices (Regal) on BFK Rives
1977
Signed in pencil, lower left (each)
Numbered 129/200 in pencil, lower left (each)
Signed by Dali and Goya and titled in print (each)
Dimensions: 9 x 6 1/2 inches (22.7 x 16.5)
Each framed and matted
From Les Caprices de Goya series
Accompanied by a letter of authentication from Bruce Hochman, OS, San Juan, California
Michler/Löpsinger 852, 865, 889, 890
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"Les Caprices de Goya" is Salvador Dali's reworking of Francisco Goya's "Los Caprichos" series, published more than 200 years earlier. Goya's "Los Caprichos" criticized Spanish social conventions of the time. The series of 80 aquatint etchings was published in 1799, but was blocked from sale shortly afterwards. Goya's critique of the Catholic Church nearly had him called before the Spanish Inquisition. Dali felt a strong affinity with Goya, as a fellow iconoclast. He made his own Surrealist additions to the prints. .

This group of four prints from “Les Caprices de Goya” series are each hand-signed by Dali in pencil on the lower left, with the signatures of both Dali and Goya in the prints. They are numbered 129/200, and measure 9 x 6 ½ inches. Each is framed and matted, accompanied by a letter of authentication from Bruce Hochman, OS, San Juan, CA. Catalogue Raisonne: Michler/Löpsinger 852, 865, 889, 890.

Salvador Dali (SPANISH, 1904-1989)

The Spanish painter, printmaker and sculptor Salvador Dali was one of the main figures of Surrealism. In 1929 Dali joined the Surrealists in Paris. Today his dreamy works, influenced from the unconscious are found in collections of important international museums. To this day, Salvador Dali is considered one of the most famous artists of the 20th century.