Salvador Dalí

SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueras, Girona, 1904 - 1989).
"Christ of St. John of the Cross".
Sculpture in silver. Exemplary 12/250.
Signed and numbered.
Contrast of the law of silver on the base.
Measurements: 22 x 7 x 7 cm.
Dalí was attracted by the "timelessness" of Goya's Caprichos, which reflect with sarcasm the satirical and macabre behavior of eighteenth-century Spain, vices and bad education that the surrealist painter revised some time later, between 1973 and 1977, with puns in the slogans and incorporating his own symbols, although always preserving Goya's signature, which appears next to his on the back. In this way, to the satire of the relations between men and women of the century, the bad education, witchcraft, ignorance or the abuse of power that Goya remarked in the 18th century is added the vision of Dalí.
Painter and sculptor, Salvador Dalí was one of the greatest exponents of the surrealist movement. He made his individual debut in 1925, at the Dalmau Galleries in Barcelona. In 1926, after being expelled from the San Fernando School of Fine Arts for indiscipline, he went to Paris. There he met the young Picasso and, four years later, he joined the surrealist movement. Dalí's production in this period is based on Freud's theories, acclaimed by Breton: representation of dreamlike images and everyday objects in unsuspected and surprising compositional forms. Some of the characteristics of his work at this time became distinctive of all his later work. He also absorbed the influences of diverse artistic styles, from classical academicism to the most groundbreaking avant-garde. His work greatly influenced the direction of surrealism during the following years, being acclaimed as the creator of the paranoiac-critical method, an essential combination of the real and the imaginary. As a result of his first individual exhibition in New York in 1934, his international projection was definitively consolidated. Most of his production is gathered in the Dalí Theatre-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.