Salvador DALI, Original Lithograph, Sun Goddess Flower, Signed, Fantastic!

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This fantastic original lithograph is by Modern Surrealist Master Salvador Dali. Titled Sun Goddess Flower, this piece is hand-signed and numbered from the edition of 250 on BFK Rives paper. Dimensions are: 30" x 22" sheet. Annotated in Albert Field's Catalogue as #72-2 on page 165, and published by Phyllis Lucas, New York, this rare piece will make a valuable addition to your collection. It is in excellent condition, aside from tape residual on the verso from previous framing. The piece comes with a certificate of authenticity and our 100% guarantee as to authenticity. The lithograph has a retail of $15,500. Shipping is $21.95 for US Priority mail, insured to the US. Thanks for visiting and good luck with the auctions. Dalí, Salvador (1904-89): Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and designer. After passing through phases of Cubism, Futurism and Metaphysical painting, he joined the Surrealists in 1929 and his talent for self-publicity rapidly made him the most famous representative of the movement. Throughout his life he cultivated eccentricity and exhibitionism , claiming that this was the source of his creative energy. He took over the Surrealist theory of automatism but transformed it into a more positive method which he named `critical paranoia'. According to this theory one should cultivate genuine delusion as in clinical paranoia while remaining residually aware at the back of one's mind that the control of the reason and will has been deliberately suspended. His paintings employed a meticulous academic technique that was contradicted by the unreal `dream' space he depicted and by the strangely hallucinatory characters of his imagery. He described his pictures as `hand-painted dream photographs' and had certain favorite and recurring images, such as the human figure with half-open drawers protruding from it, burning giraffes, and watches bent and flowing as if made from melting wax (The Persistence of Memory, MOMA, New York; 1931). In 1937 Dalí visited Italy and adopted a more traditional style. He moved to the USA in 1940 and remained there until 1955. During this time he devoted himself largely to self-publicity; his paintings were often on religious themes (The Crucifixion of St John of the Cross, Glasgow Art Gallery, 1951), although sexual subjects and pictures centering on his wife Gala were also continuing preoccupations. In 1955 he returned to Spain and in old age became a recluse. Apart from painting, Dalí's output included sculpture, book illustration, jewelry design, and work for the theatre. In collaboration with the director Luis Buñuel he also made the first Surrealist films---Un chien andalou (1929) and L'Age d'or (1930)---and he contributed a dream sequence to Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945). There are museums devoted to Dalí's work in Figueras, his home town in Spain, and in St. Petersburg, Florida. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ If you have any questions about this auction, or on any other piece we're offering please email us through eBay. We offer combined shipping on like items up to 5 pieces per tube for one shipping charge. Please wait until the auction finishes before paying, as we will invoice you reflecting the shipping discount. As we are not open on week-ends or Holidays, all correspondence will be answered promptly first thing Monday morning or the day following the Holiday. International Clients please note: we cannot control the time international customs takes to process your shipment. Every country has different standards. Please do not ask us to lower the value of your purchase, as all orders must be insured so as to prevent loss. Thank you again for your interest and good luck with the auctions! read more

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