Salvador Dali Hans Christian Andersen

Salvador Dali created interpretations of the stories and characters from the stories. Dali painted the originals with a thick watercolor or gouache.
Considered to be some of the most impressive of all limited edition works by Dali.

Hand signed by Dali and published in 1966

Paper size is 26" x 20" Archival paper.

Small edition of 235 (Edition broken up in various number sequences)

Some on Arches paper, some on Japon paper.

"The Sandman"

Hans Christian Andersen April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875 was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duckling" and more.

During his lifetime he was acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide, and was feted by royalty. His poetry and stories have been translated into more than 150 languages. They have inspired motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films.

Photo of Hans Christian Andersen

Here are a few more examples of Dali's interpretation of Andersen's work:

"The Will of the Wisp"

"The Prince and the Princess"

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Salvador Dali Sewing Machine from Homage to Leonardo Da Vinci

Salvador Dali paid homage to the great inventors by creating a series of original hand colored etchings in 1975. The suite was titled "Homage to Leonardo Da Vinci (Great Inventions)", but the works in the suite were no limited to inventions of Da Vinci's era. Dali paid homage to the inventors of not only the sewing machine, but also the telephone, airplane, automobile, computer circut, hydrolic brake, petrolium, telegraph, light bulb, rocket, harvester, linotype etc.

"Sewing Machine"

Hand signed by Dali in 1975

Limited edition hand signed etching. Hand colored.

22" x 30" on Archival paper.

In 1834, Walter Hunt built America's first (somewhat) successful sewing machine. He later lost interest in patenting because he believed his invention would cause unemployment. (Hunt's machine could only sew straight steams.) Hunt never patented and in 1846, the first American patent was issued to Elias Howe for "a process that used thread from two different sources."

Sewing machines did not go into mass production until the 1850's, when Isaac Singer built the first commercially successful machine. Singer built the first sewing machine where the needle moved up and down rather than the side-to-side and the needle was powered by a foot treadle.

Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola, Jr. (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and member of highly diverse social circles that included Bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons.

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame." In his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Andy Warhol Museum exists in memory of his life and artwork.

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market." $100 million is a benchmark price that only Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre-August Renoir, Gustav Klimt and Willem de Kooning have achieved.



Salvador Dali Telephone Lobster

Hand signed by Dali in 1975

Hand colored original etching with aquatint color.

22" x 30" on Arches paper.

Pencil numbered lower left corner.

This work is part of a series that pays hommage to great inventions.

Notice the line from the mouth of the model to the telephone in the distance.

Origin and inspiration:

Lobster Telephone (also known as Aphrodisiac Telephone) is a surrealist object, created by Salvador Dalí in 1936 with surrealist artist and patron Edward James. Dalí wrote of lobsters and telephones in some of his books. In one reference Dali demanding to know why, when he asked for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, he was never presented with a boiled telephone.

The TATE MUSEUM owns one of the original sculptures of this subject.

History:

Inspired by Dalí, Edward James proceeded in the 1930s to turn his country manor into a fantasy palace filled with every kind of strange and exotic object. As well as placing three of Dalí's sofas in the shape of Mae West's lips into his living quarters, James asked Dalí to 'make-over' his telephones as well. Dali suggested that James fill his rooms with what he called 'The surrealist object - one that is absolutely useless from the practical and rational point of view, created wholly for the purpose of materialising in a fetishistic way, with the maximum of tangible reality, ideas and fantasies having a delirious character.' He then conceived a truly unforgettable object, his irresistibly playful lobster perched atop a phone, which was also called the Aphrodisiac telephone at the time, a title in keeping with Dalí's wicked sense of humour and desire to baffle his public completely.

Dalí's Lobster telephone was not 'absolutely useless', however, but was in fact a perfectly functioning telephone. Edward James purchased four Lobster telephones from Dalí, with which he replaced all the original phones in his country retreat. One of these (a partial reconstruction) is now in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London;

The use of the crutch to hold up heavy objects or elongated body parts is seen throughout Dali's works. Dali quote: "I imagine sleep as a heavy monster that was "held up by the crutches of reality".

LADY GAGA BORROWED THIS IDEA FROM DALI AND HIS WIFE GALA.