Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
“El Sobrero de tres picos” (1949)
Gouache on cardboard
28,5cm x 35,5cm
Accompanied by original certification of authenticity from Nicolas Descharnes.
Between 1939 to 1961 Dali worked on set and costume design along with a number of prominent artists working for companies such as the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and other ballet companies throughout the world. Dali created the stage decor, costumes, and libretto for the Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo’s Venusberg with choreography by Massine and music by Richard Wagner. Dalí was intimately involved with set design for the 1949 ballet, “Sombrero de tres Picos” (also known as “The Three-Cornered Hat”) at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York. Why this particular ballet? Perhaps its setting in Dali‘s beloved homeland of Catalonia or perhaps it was his opportunity to fulfill a long-standing desire to tackle the ballet that had been so important in the career of his rival Pablo Picasso in the 1920s. “The Three-Cornered Hat” provided Dali with a perfect challenge to create a theater set which was quintessentially Spanish. In any event Dali, reportedly paid one-thousand-dollars, began preparation of the drawings for its stage set and costumes. #Dalí created a distinctly Spanish landscape, populated by Dalinean levitating trees, guitar-shaped buildings, and floating sacks intended to echo the movement of the dancers on the stage. This painting is one of the studies Salvador Dali created prior to building the set.
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