Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Surrealist Angel (1983)
Edition of 12 bronzes (edition of 8 +4 Proofs)
ARTIST PROOF edition of only 4
Bronze, monumental, 163cm tall x 85cm x 50cm
Cast at Bonvicini Foundry, Italy
Patina: Black
Literature: Descharnes, Robert & Nicolas. Catalogue Raisonne “Le Dur et le Mou”, pg. 148-149 Ref#382
Certification: Robert Descharnes, 21 January 2002 Ref #O-335
Provenance: Salvador Dali to original publisher to present owner.
Examples exhibited in:
-Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1999
-Museu National de Bellas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1998
-National Museum of Catholic Art and History, New York, USA, 2002
-Quinta Patino Resort, Estoril, Portugal, octobre 2003 à janvier 2004
– Château du Roeulx du 9 septembre 2004 au 2 janvier 2005
-Musée d’Art Chrétien et Byzantin, Athènes, Grèce, février à mars 2007
-Musée d’Histoire, Nicosie, Chypres , mai –juin 2007
-Musée de Tessalonikhi, Tessalonikhi, Grèce, janvier – mars 2008
-Musée du papier, Fabriano, Italie, mai-juin 2010
-Art Museum Suzhou, China, février-mars 2011
-Shaanxi Art Museum, Xian, China, mai-juin 2011
-Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China, octobre-novembre 2015
Literature”
-Françoise Lechien,”Dali, Dali ! ou l’éclosion apothéosique d’un sculpteur”, 2004, editions Delta et QuArt, p.56
-Collectif, “Salvador Dali – Sculptures Three collections”, 2003, ed QuArt p. 21
-Robert Descharnes, “Dali, sculptures et objets – Le dur et le mou”, 2003, ed Eccart, p. 148.
–Dali Monumental, catalogue de l’exposition au Musée de Bellas Artes do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1998, p.111
-La collection de Dali de Qu Art , 2007, ed Qu Art p.21
–Salvador Dali à Fabriano, Italie, 2010, Ed InArte, p.9-11
Angels are an important theme throughout Dali‘s work. We find a great many references to them in his writings. In an entry dated May 1953 in his Diary of a Genius, Dali wrote, “I have drawn from sunrise until the evening six faces of mathematical angels, explosive, and of such great beauty that I remained exhausted and stiff.” And on August 1953, “Everything is on the ‘outside’ with angels, it is impossible to picture them anymore without this ‘outside’.- Robert & Nicolas Descharnes, Catalogue Raisonne, “Le Dur et le Mou”, 2004
The Surrealist and Cubist Angels are two of the most powerful statements in Dali‘s sculptural oeuvre. These fraternal twin figures, with their jet-black patinas and smooth androgynous bodies evoke his theories on mathematical symmetry and the asexuality of man versus angel. Dalis use of a variation on the base of the 3rd century Greek Icon “Winged Victory/Nike of Samothrace” (Musée du Louvre) on “Surrealist Angel” provides a glimpse into what he felt his own “Nike” was meant to symbolize, the sounding of the trumpets of Victory.
