Napoleon's Nose
1988
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Size
26 x 19.69 in
Year
1988
Medium
Paintings
Reference
31c98011
Lithograph by the Surrealist master Salvador Dali, reproducing the subject of the unique work created in 1945. The full title of the work is "Napoleon's nose, transformed into a pregnant woman, walking his shadow with melancholy among the original ruins". The title is as surreal as the scene: a sort of crucifixion of a woman on the right, a weeping man below, dancers on the right and Napoleon's head in the centre, represented as if it were a sculpture. The emperor's likeness is also present in the ruins behind.
The atmosphere is surreal; every object we observe seems to be detached from its context. The work is charged with the artist's interpretative genius.
Watermark on BFK RIVES France infinity sheet.
The work is signed in the lower right-hand corner of the plate and numbered CLXXXI/MM in the lower left-hand corner.
The lithograph bears the characteristic dry stamp of the publisher GDALI.
1904 Figueras, Spain
Salvador Dalí was born in 1904, in Figueras, Catalonia. He was one of the most well-known surrealist artists of the twentieth century, and he was a great experimenter of the pictorial, theatrical and cinematographic fields. His style is original and it is distinguishable due to the provocative subject matter. He was able to integrate the Freudian theory of dream analysis in his works, expressing the workings of the unconscious mind and associate words, images and thoughts to provoke a specific kind of emotion in the viewers, revealing also the artist’s darkest secrets and an alternative reality. Thanks to his expertise as a draftsman and a colorist, he used a variety of techniques and mediums to create his artwork, such as lithography, sculpting, oil painting, fashion designing and writing. Dalí’s work was inspired by Pablo Picasso, whom he met in Paris, and by an Italian painter, called Giorgio de Chirico. Since he used the themes of death, eroticism, childhood memories, dreams, his artworks can be viewed as modern, innovative, deep, symbolic and sometimes grotesque.
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