Auction Date:2015 Nov 25 @ 19:00 (UTC-7 : PDT/MST)
Location:2320 W Peoria Ave Suite B142, Phoenix, Arizona, 85029, United States
Salvador Dali signed lithograph from suite of (25) unique and different images on Japon paper
Signed in pencil by Dali
And signed in the plate by Dali and Gala (G)
Authenticated in the "Official Catalog of The Graphic Works of Salvador Dali" by Albert Field and Michler Löpsinger, catalogue raisonné of prints, n 1405, page 154.as
Current Price of the lithograph is $7,500.00, verified in the Bruce Hochman 2015 Dali Print Price Guide.
Lithograph measures approximately 21" x 30" in size. Limited edition hand-numbered 139/250. The lithograph includes an LOA and lifetime authenticity guarantee from Pristine Auction.
"Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel" (Pantagruel's droll dreams) The comical Dreams of Pantagruel was a 16th century novel by Francois Rabelais, illustrated with grotesque woodcut figures, partly reminding of the imagery of Hieronymus Bosch. These figures have inspired to Dali to create his own graphic series from which one print is offered here.
Pantagruel, the hero of Francois Rabelais’s 1532 Novel, with his motto "do what thou wilt" is the fitting name for the art for auction.
Salvador Dali’s Le Jarre Du Péteur ("Jar of Farts")is not for the faint of heart. Dali doesn’t just manage to cross the line, but instead leaps over it in this 1973 piece that’s title loosely translates into English as "Jar of Farts". This felt pen illustration was his visual interpretation of the novel (translated to English as): The Horrible and terrifying Deeds and Words of the Very Renowned Pantagruel King of the Dipsodes, Son of the Great Giant Gargantua by François Rabelais. This book of tall tales, commonly known as Pantagruel, is chronologically the second volume of a series that follows the outlandish escapades of a family of giants. In 1532, it became the first book to be published by Rabelais under his pen name Alcofribas Nasier, and served as a sequel to the popular book entitled The Great Chronicles of the Great and Enormous Giant Gargantua, which was not credited by any specific author at the time.
In this particular volume, from which Dali’s work was inspired, Rabelais relates the antics of the giant named Pantragruel, the son of the aforementioned Gargantua. The tales of Pantragruel unfold via a series of nonsensical court cases and essays, cataloging the giant’s episodes. In one such episode, Pantragruel befriends a poorly mannered rascal and together they defeat a group of invading giants. The pair then proceed to urinate on the survivors, drowning them. Rabelais’s grotesque sense of humor and wild display of imagination resonated with Dali, because it was here that Dali found the inspiration for the fearlessness he displays in Le Jarre Du Peteur.
Dali’s unorthodox masterpiece Le Jarre Du Peteur brazenly depicts a large, humanlike figure’s backside, expelling fumes from its rectum into an anthropomorphic, torch-bearing jar. With one leg bent in the air, the faceless giant’s other leg kneels down on one knee beside the dismembered flexed foot that bears Dali’s signature with G for Gala. The obscenity of the work is amplified by exposed bones protruding from the humongous, hairy legs from which several patches of weeds sprout from. Putrescence spews from the mouth of the disgruntled jar. While the figures are illustrated in black and white. This sort of illustration on one-dimensional fields of color offers a sense of animation common to storytelling comics. Le Jarre Du Peteur proves that Dali was fearless and unapologetic. Even in the most vile, obscene subject matter—Dali manages to find the sophistication in its humor. When it comes to Dali, nothing is out of bounds. Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the main representatives of surrealism and ranks among the most famous artists of the 20th century.
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