Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
“The Violin” (1966)
Bronze edition of 350
13 inches (33cm)
Venturi Arte Foundry
Literature: Descharnes, Robert & Nicolas “Le Dur et Le Mou” Catalogue Raisonne of Dali sculpture, Pg. 117 Ref. 281
For the execution of this sculpture, the Rudier Foundry brought Dali the skull of a margay cat (a Latin American wildcat from the family of ocelots) to form the end of the violin. The back of the instrument in a human backside. In The Secret Life, Dali recalls how he once smashed a violin of a school chum with his feet “to finally obtain irrefutable proof of the superiority of painting over music.”