Salvador Dalí

SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueres, Girona, 1904 - 1989).
"Étude de mobilier, sphinge constitant une cheminée pour un bain chauffé et banquette avec un " G " pour le château de Púbol", ca. 1970.
Watercolor and pen on paper.
With stamp of the Museu Perrot-Moore Cadaqués.
Accompanied by certificate of authenticity issued by Nicolas R. Descharnes. Registered in his archives with the ref. d7514.
Measurements: 21,2 x 27,3 cm.

Dalí was always interested in extending his eccentric genius to furniture, proposing designs of surrealist inspiration such as the one offered by this original watercolor that imagines the interior of his Púbol Castle with a fireplace in the shape of a large-breasted sphinx and a leonine sofa. It is worth relating this project to the theatrical experimentation that Dalí used in his film and theater scenographies. Although he also gave real form to his surrealist furniture, such as "The Faces of Mae West used as an apartment", kept at the Fundació Gala Dalí in Figueres.

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.