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Salvador Dali 1904-1989 SpaIn Ink Study Horse

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Salvador Dali 1904-1989 SpaIn Ink Study Horse
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India ink on paper drawing, featuring a study of a horse rider and woman from behind. Signed and attr. Salvador Dali (Spain, 1904-1989) on bottom left corner. Accompanied with certificate of attribution. 8.1 x 10.8 inch (20.6 x 27.5 cm). Salvador Dalí was a leading proponent of Surrealism, the 20-century avant-garde movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious through strange, dream-like imagery. “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision,” he said. Dalí is specially credited with the innovation of “paranoia-criticism,” a philosophy of art making he defined as “irrational understanding based on the interpretive-critical association of delirious phenomena.” In addition to meticulously painting fantastic compositions, such as The Accommodations of Desire (1929) and the melting clocks in his famed The Persistence of Memory (1931), Dalí was a prolific writer and early filmmaker, and cultivated an eccentric public persona with his flamboyant mustache, pet ocelot, and outlandish behavior and quips. “Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure,” he once said. “That of being Salvador Dalí.” PROVENANCE: Private (Chicago, IL)