Salvador Dalí

SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueras, Girona, 1904 - 1989)
"La comtesse DuBarry. 1977.
Ink on cardboard.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Attached certificate issued by the Gala-Dalí Foundation.
Measurements: 28 x 21 cm (paper); 35,5 x 27 cm.

The foie gras house Comtesse du Barry may have commissioned this drawing from Dalí to advertise its product. The legendary brand of foie gras chose the name in homage to the lady of the court of Louis XV, the king's last mistress, whose name is associated with this gourmet food made from duck liver, the animal that accompanies the lady in Dalí's drawing.

Painter and sculptor, Salvador Dalí was one of the leading exponents of the surrealist movement. His work greatly influenced the course of surrealism during the twenties and thirties, being acclaimed as the creator of the paranoiac-critical method, an essential combination of the real with the imaginary. Most of his production is gathered in the Dalí Theater-Museum in Figueras, followed by the collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg (Florida), the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Salvador Dalí Gallery in Pacific Palisades (California), the Espace Dalí in Montmartre (Paris) or the Dalí Universe in London.