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The Temptation of St. Anthony

1988

Signed Titled

1

Size

50 x 65 cm
20 x 25.59 in

Year

1988

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Lithograph

The work is executed on watermark paper on BFK RIVES France infinity sheet Work signed in plate at lower right and numbered MCCIII/MM at lower left. The lithograph bears the characteristic GDALI publisher's embossed stamp.

Lithograph by Surrealist master Salvador Dali, reprising his 1946 canvas "The Temptation of St. Anthony." 

Against a desolate and surreal backdrop, we find St. Anthony in the lower left corner faithfully opposing the advance of a white, bolted horse, representing the madness that dominates the lustful. It is followed by a group of thin-legged elephants, a typical recurring figure in Dali's works. 

 

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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