DALI, SALVADOR Title: "San Narciso De Las M

DALI, SALVADOR

Title: "San Narciso De Las Moscas" from the "Clot" collection,

bronze with gold patina, produced by the lost wax process.,c. 1974, signed in the sculpture, numbered 254/300,, Diejasa, was a company belonging to Clot and his son-in-laws, , ,
Size info: 5.5 x 2 x 2 in. , , ,
Condition: In excellent condition, with a small barely noticable chip in the marble base.
Framing: Sold unframed,
Literature: Recorded and illustrated in the standard catalog of the sculpture of the artist by the Decharmes, "Sculptures and Objects, The Hard and the Soft", pg. 168, # 424. ,
Comments: with a gold plate inscription: De Salvador Dali 254/300 3M Gold 24 kts.ôI canonically dedicate my invention to the uncorrupted glorious martyr Saint Narcissus, patron of flies.àö And so San Narcissus, the patron of the town of Gerona in Spain, was created. According to the legend, when the enemies of the town wished to profane the tomb of the martyred saint, an astonishing event occurred: a great battalion of flies came to the rescue, emerging from the sepulchre to attack and defeat his enemies. The twenty-two sculptures belonging to the Obra Contemporanea Collection come originally from the well-known Isidro Clot Collection. Each piece was modelled in wax by DaliÆs own hands from 1969 to 1976 at his home in Port Lligat, and handed to the same artisans who cast the present editions using the lost wax process.Pieces belonging to the Obra Contemporanea Collection are found in over twenty museum collections worldwide, including the ôDali Theatre-Museumö in Figueras (Spain) and ôThe Salvador Dali Museumö in St. Petersburg, Florida. The collection has been published in A. Reynolds Morse, Dali Sculptures Esculturas, Madrid, Hispagraphics, 1985 [ISBN 84-398-5775-6]; in Salvador Dali û Sculptures: Three Collections, Imprimerie Clerebaut, Brussels, 2003, and in Robert and Nicolas Descharnes, DALI Sculptures & Objects û Le dur et le mou, Paris, ECCART, 2004 This collection is highly unique in that every piece was entirely DaliÆs. He put his whole self in these beautifully modelled works: his mind, his heart, his skilful hands; everything from the conception to the choice and supervision of the casts was DaliÆs.It is important at this point, to distinguish these art pieces modelled directly by Dali, from objects transformed by the artist for purposes of three-dimensional surrealist experimentation, or from sculpture created by third parties inspired by Dali drawings. These sculptures were created by DaliÆs own hands; the same hands that were so adept with the pencil and paintbrush, proved to be just as skilled when it came to modelling, giving life to the wax, folding, caressing and smoothing it with incredible maestry.The way they were created û modelled in wax by the poolside under the summer sun û makes these pieces even more special. They saw the light of day in an environment in which pleasure and independence predominated. This freedom of creation was to grant this unique collection the prominent place it now occupies among Salvador DaliÆs sculptures.This Collection probably represents one of the very few chances the world has to assess DaliÆs achievement as a sculptor rather than as a painter or transformer of objects.The criteria may be different, but as ourselves, many people will find these sculptures of lasting value by virtue of the simple fact that they are so unlike anything else that Dali created. The original castings by Clot were in editions of 300 as here. ,
Provenance: Published by Diejasa. ,