Salvador Dalí

SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueras, Girona, 1904 - 1989).
"Flordali II: La rose papillon".
Lithograph with relief on Arches paper. Copy 3828/5000.
Certificate of authenticity enclosed.
Presents information on the back.
Signed.
Measurements: 103 x 73 cm; 110 x 80 cm (frame).
Work reproduced in:
- Catalogue raisonné Field page 233.
- Catalogue raisonné Michler et Lopsinger 1587.
- Catalogue raisonné Sahli #234.
Flor Dalí Rose Papillon is one of the most representative creations of Salvador Dalí's poetic and symbolic imagery, in which the Catalan artist fuses elements of nature with the resources of surrealism to construct an image charged with ambiguity, sensuality and metamorphosis. In this work, the flower, a recurring symbol in the artistic tradition, is transformed into a hybrid object, where the petals take on the appearance of butterfly wings, thus blurring the boundaries between the vegetable and the animal.
Following Pichot's advice, Dalí began to study painting with Juan Núñez. In 1922, Dalí stayed at the famous Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid to begin studying Fine Arts at the San Fernando Academy. However, before his final exams in 1926, he was expelled for claiming that there was no one there fit to examine him. That same year Dalí traveled to Paris for the first time. There he met Picasso, and established some formal characteristics that would become distinctive of all his work from then on. During this period, Dalí held regular exhibitions in both Barcelona and Paris, and joined the surrealist group based in the Parisian neighborhood of Montparnasse. The painter landed in America in 1934, thanks to art dealer Julian Levy. As a result of his first individual exhibition in New York, his international projection was definitively consolidated.