© ‘Salvador Dali’, Fonds Photo Jean RIBIERE, Hélène TABES
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Doménech was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He is known worldly to be a prominent figure of the surrealist art movement and a 20th-century icon. He was a painter, sculptor, and author.
Influenced by Impressionism, he began his artistic training at the Academy of Madrid. On Joan Miro’s advice, he then left for Paris, where he joined other artists, such as Pablo Picasso and René Magritte. and met his future wife and inspiration Gala.
He found his unique style around 1929 by inventing the paranoid critical method. His works revolve around the themes of dreams, sexuality, his wife Gala, and religion.
The sculptures by Salvador Dali
Dalí started to experiment with the third dimension and sculpture in the 1930s, his was looking to transcribe the obsessions of his unconscious into volume and solid matter.
As a result, he recreated the main themes of his pictorial work into sculptures. These sculptures are realized using the lost was technique, a process allowing perfect precision in the modeling of bronze. These sculptures represent a significant aspect of Dali’s artistic creation.
SALVADOR DALI SCULPTURES
BRONZE MULTIPLES
All of the Dali sculpture editions are cited in the Descharnes catalogue raisonné, The Hard and the Soft (Eccart, 2004).
Robert Descharnes and his son Nicolas are generally know as the most important specialists and experts when it comes to Salvador Dali, his life and work.
Each sculpture comes with both a certificate of authenticity and a foundry certificate.
Adam & Eve
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 52 cm
Alice in Wonderland
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 91 cm
Birdman
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 27 cm
Dalinian Dancer
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 41 cm
Dance of Time I
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 39 cm
Dance of Time II
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 31 cm
Dance of Time III
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 27 cm
Homage to Fashion
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 51 cm
Homage to Newton
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 35 cm
Homage to Terpsichore
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 71 cm
Horse Saddled with Time
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 44 cm
Lady Godiva with Butterflies
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 51 cm
Man with Butterflies
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 56 cm
Nobility of Time
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 60 cm
Profile of Time
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 51 cm
Snail and the Angel
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 44 cm
Space Elephant
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 94 cm
Space Venus
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 65 cm
St-George & the Dragon
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 46 cm
Surrealist Newton
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 49 cm
Surrealist Piano
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 60 cm
Surrealist Warrior
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 51 cm
Triumphant Angel
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 50 cm
Triumphant Elephant
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 53 cm
Unicorn
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 57 cm
Vision of the Angel
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 44 cm
Woman Aflame
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 84 cm
Woman of Time
Lost-wax bronze
Multiple /350 + 35 E.A.
H 66 cm
