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Salvador Dali The Argus RARE 1960 hand colored print signed by Dali
THE ARGUS BY SALVADOR DALI
VERY RARE
(Notice the detailed work in the lower portion)
20” x 30” on archival paper.
From the rare 1st edition.
(There is also a 2nd edition and a black and white edition)
Published in Paris France in 1960
This is a museum level work.
Subject: Greek Mythology
ARGOS (Argus) PANOPTES was a hundred-eyed giant who lived in the region of Argolis in the Peloponnese.
Once when Zeus was consorting with the Nymph Io, his wife Hera arrived on the scene. The god quickly transformed his lover into a white heifer, but the goddess was not deceived. She demanded the animal for a gift and set Argos Panoptes as its guard.
Zeus sent Hermes to surreptitiously rescue his lover. The god first tried to lull the giant to sleep with his music, but failing that, slew him with his sword. It was from this endeavour that he earned his familiar title Argeiphontes (literally "the slayer of Argos").
Hera rewarded Argos for his service by placing his hundred eyes on the tail of her sacred bird, the peacock.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Salvador Dali Alfred Hitchcock Spellbound
Alfred Hitchcock wanted Salvador Dali to create a dream sequence for his 1940's film "Spellbound" with Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman. Hitchcock felt that Dali was the only one who understood that dreams were not properly represented in films because in those days directors and special effects people would depict dreams in a fog or haze and use lense filters to blur the edges of the scene. Hitchcock wanted sharp edges and long shadows, Dali was the perfect man for the job and was hired to create the now famous dream sequence.
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