Salvador Dalí

SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÉNECH (Figueras, Girona, 1904 - 1989).
"Space Venus", 1977-1984.
Proof in bronze with brown and golden patina.
Signed on the base and numbered E/A 2/3. Bronze edition of 7 specimens plus 3 E.A. and 2 H.C.
Founder's stamp "Fonderie Tesconi, Italy" on the reverse of the base.
Provenance: Private collection.
This work is registered in the archives of Nicolas Descharnes under the reference O-153/990.
A certificate of authenticity from Robert Descharnes and Nicolas Descharnes dated March 3, 1994 will be given to the buyer.
Measurements: 124 x 61 x 62,5 cm.

The torso of the Venus de Milo, one of the classical figures that most obsessed the genius of Figueras, allows Dalí to develop his paranoiac-critical method of interpreting reality. The surrealist transgresses the classical reference by separating the body of the Venus into two halves, the upper one recessed with respect to the lower one, slightly supported in a display of aesthetic balance. To this he adds his own surrealist elements: a soft watch hanging from the neck (probably one of the most praised motifs of the host of Dalinian objects) that reminds us that beauty is timeless and eternal; ants wandering around the abdomen and alluding to decomposition (Dalí resorts to ants to show us both the desires and the horrors that torment him: the ant is the representation of the putrefaction he fears so much) and a golden egg, a positive symbol given its soft interior and hard exterior, a reflection of renewal, continuity and future. This multiple edition has been made from Salvador Dalí's original work entitled "Spatial Venus" (gouache, 1977).

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.