Salvador Dali Marquis de Sade As Pure as her Heart

Salvador Dali hand signed a series of works in the 1960's titled "Marquis de Sade"

One of the more popular of the set(suite) is As Pure as her Heart.

Justine, a sweet and virtuous girl lives with her sister Juliette in a nunnery. When they learn of their father's death, they are booted out of the nunnery with their father's remaining gold. Juliette takes Justine to a friend, Madame de Buission who could provide accommodation for the two girls. De Buisson turns out to be a brothel owner and requires the girls to work as prostitutes to pay for the accommodation. Justine refuses and leaves the brothel with her gold while Juliette stays and learns the arts of a prostitute. Justine meets a priest who offers to keep her gold safe and return it at the church the next day, should she reside with Monsieur Du Harpin. Du Harpin does not know the priest however, but agrees to let Justine stay for free if she agrees to serve as a maid.

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Salvador Dali Dumont and Marton Marquis de Sade

Dumont and Marton
by

Salvador Dali

Hand signed in 1969

25 5/8" x 19 5/8" on archival paper.

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Condition: Excellent

Unframed (Ask about preservation framing)

From a small edition of 301 created in 1969

and hand signed by Salvador Dali in pencil.

Dumont, a well dressed man arrived bearing the Marquis de Sade's letter from Barraux. Sade wanted to use Dumont for an escape attempt, but the Commandante de Launay did not allow for a private meeting between the two.

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In Marquis de Sade His Life and Works

Marton talks to Marquise about a rebellion and what will happen to women. Marquise asks Marton to make her look presentable so she will be spared.
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Salvador Dali Marquis de Sade Damis and Derval

Damis and Durval (Derval)

Damis - a Parisian lover who has in his wake left many broken female

hearts, is sent into the country by his father to choose a bride from

between two twins, Adalaide and Julie.

Damis decides on Adelaide.

Durval(Derval)

from the play: L'Egarement

Sade portrays a couple - Derval and his wife Cecile - who

flee to London from France for the sake of Love.

As Derval is arrested for stealing food, Cecile is put

under pressure by Derval's captor.

This is a hand signed limited edition work by Salvador Dali

Published in 1969

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Salvador Dali and surrealism

A number of people have asked me "What exactly is surrealism?"
Quite often when I'm talking to Dali collectors, they refer to the art as abstract. Abstract art is more a combination of shapes and colors or lines that make up a scattered or fragmented image, although there are other styles of abstract such as pointillism (you can easily find examples of abstract art online). Surrealism in Dali's world was brought on by his childhood, the study of science and religeon and his introduction to a group of artists that wanted to promote the idea of the "Rebirth of Surrealism". Many beleive that surrealism started in the 1920's, but it can be traced back to the early years of art. With a bit of research, you can find many exaples of surrealism in the days of Velasquez and others. Surrealism spills over into other mediums as well. Study Gaudi the architect and the surrealists in film etc. The surreal state is a dreamlike state either brought on by environment, substance, or in Dali's case, self induced. There are a number of books that describe a self enduced paranoia and Dali's use of Freud in his works. As an example, the film Spellbound features a dream sequence desined by Dali and used by Alfred Hichcock to create what was referred to as "The Highest Grossing Film of that Year" attributed to Dali's contribution. In my opinion, Surrealism can bring about much more conversation and thought than many other categories in art, and much of surrealism is left to your imagination, while realism tells the story in full and leaves little for the imagination (depends on the subject of course). Impressionism seems to also tell the story in a similar way as realism, but you see a filtered image or the impression of the subjects. In Dali's case, you see long legged Elephants walking across a landscape or clocks melting over a tree branch. The experts over the years have all come up with various reasons why Dali painted melting clocks, but it's interesting that none of them were in line with Dali's own comments about the work.