
Salvador Dalí
Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel, 1973
Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish surrealist, 1904-1989)
Title: Les Songes Drolatiques De Pantagruel
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Salvador Dalí was a leading proponent of Surrealism, the 20-century avant-garde movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious through strange, dream-like imagery. “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision,” he said. Dalí is specially credited with the innovation of “paranoia-criticism,” a philosophy of art making he defined as “irrational understanding based on the interpretive-critical association of delirious phenomena.” In addition to meticulously painting fantastic compositions, such as The Accommodations of Desire (1929) and the melting clocks in his famed The Persistence of Memory (1931), Dalí was a prolific writer and early filmmaker, and cultivated an eccentric public persona with his flamboyant mustache, pet ocelot, and outlandish behavior and quips.

Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish surrealist, 1904-1989)
Title: Les Songes Drolatiques De Pantagruel
Year: 1973
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 47/50 in pencil
Paper: Japan
Paper size: 29.75 x 21 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Celami (Carpentier and Wajntraub) Ethis
Printer: Grapholith

Salvador Dalí was a leading proponent of Surrealism, the 20-century avant-garde movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious through strange, dream-like imagery. “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision,” he said. Dalí is specially credited with the innovation of “paranoia-criticism,” a philosophy of art making he defined as “irrational understanding based on the interpretive-critical association of delirious phenomena.” In addition to meticulously painting fantastic compositions, such as The Accommodations of Desire (1929) and the melting clocks in his famed The Persistence of Memory (1931), Dalí was a prolific writer and early filmmaker, and cultivated an eccentric public persona with his flamboyant mustache, pet ocelot, and outlandish behavior and quips.