Limited Edition Giclee Titled “tristan And Isolde” By Salvador Dali. This Piece Is Facsimile Signed On The Lower Right. Pencil Numbered From An Edition Of 375. Paper Measures 9? X 14?. Image Measures 12? X 7?. Made On Thick Quality Archival Paper. In Excellent Condition, Comes Unframed. Comes With A Certificate. The Figures Of Tristan And Isolde Depicted On This Subject Were Originally Painted By Dali In 1944 As A Backdrop For The Ballet Bacchanale, Performed To Wagner’s Music And Presented For The First Time In 1944 On The Stage Of The International Theater In New York. The Tale Of This Ballet, For Which Dali Wrote The Libretto, Began Before The War. At That Time That Title Was Mad Tristan. It Was To Be Performed In Paris With The Choreography By Leonide Massine, The Scenery By Prince Charvachidze, And Costumes On Which Coco Chanel Wished To Use Real Ermine And Genuine Precious Stones. The War Prevented The Production In Paris, And Later The Marquis Georges De Cuevas Decided To Stage The Spectacle In New York. “as With Everything Else,” Dali Writes In The Secret Life, “my Mad Tristan, Which Was To Have Been My Most Successful Theatrical Venture, Could Not Be Given; So It Became Venusberg And Finally Bacchanale, Which Is The Definitive Version.” The Ballet Is Favorable Ground For Dali To Put His Paranoiac-critical Method Into Practice With Happy Results. Unfortunately, Most Of The Time His Directions Were Not Followed Exactly In The Production Of The Scenery And Staging; His Ideas Often Seemed Too Difficult To Execute In Actual Practice, They Were Too Costly, And They Could Not Be Accepted Under The Security Rules Normally Applied To Theaters.

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