Interview with the artist Salvador Dali in the 1960's. Audio with still images.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Art Market doing well
Despite the flatlined economy, the art market has been roaring. In the first half of this year, total worldwide art sales hit a record of $4.3 billion ($5.8 billion), up 34 percent from 2010, according to art industry insiders. The same report states that 663 works jumped past the million-euro mark during that period, 200 more than in the first six months of 2008, which once held the record.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Salvador Dali Paintings
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"Triumph of the Sea"
Original painting by Salvador Dali
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Salvador Dali sets new record at Moscow museum
Some 270,000 people visited a Salvador Dali exhibition at Moscow’s Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in 11 weeks, setting a new record for the museum. Exhibits were from the Dali Theatre and Museum in Figueres, Spain.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Authentic Alice in Wonderland Prints $850.00 each unframed.
If you are looking for authentic Alice in Wonderland prints from 1969 with proper documentation at a good price, we have a few left starting at $850.00 ea unframed. Shipping charges vary based on your location.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
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.
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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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol
Interview by Sarah Phillips
I was working for Condé Nast and Mademoiselle magazine in New York and had a reportage way of shooting, even for fashion. It caught Andy Warhol's eye; he wanted someone to tag along to parties or to photograph him making silkscreens and movies, capturing his daily life.
For a 24-year-old Englishman, hanging out at the Factory was mind-blowing. I had no idea people lived this way; any time of the day or night, there would be something wild going on. I couldn't afford to get too whacked because I had to stay focused for my work, so I just observed. And a lot of what happened I couldn't photograph: there was no way you could publish those kind of pictures.
On this particular occasion, in the winter of 1964-65, I got a call saying we were to meet at the St Regis hotel: we were going to visit Salvador Dalí, my hero. I was thrilled. When we arrived at his suite, Dalí beckoned us in with a cane and no one spoke; opera music was playing so loudly that the room was vibrating. He grabbed Andy by the arm and plonked him in a chair, pointed at me to get my camera ready, then grabbed a huge Inca headdress, dramatically placing it on Andy's head.
It was pure theatre. Dalí was making Andy so nervous – which was unusual: it was usually him who made other people tongue-tied – that he was guzzling back wine. I'd never even seen him drink before. He kept looking as if he was ready to bolt for the door, and then finally he said: "David, we've gotta go."
There is nothing manufactured about the picture: things happened so fast it was almost like being a war photographer. We were there for no more than five minutes, and we never discussed the experience afterwards. That wasn't Andy's style, and I think he was genuinely shocked by the meeting. Suddenly the table had been turned and it was no longer me photographing Warhol, it was Dalí with Warhol.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Salvador Dali photos
Dali and Alfred Hitchcock
Dali on Whats My Line TV show
Dali creating hand signed lithographs in his studio
in the mid 1960's
Salvador Dali Fashion Show
1953 - Dali entered a Fashion Contest in New York. The theme was, "Woman of the Future." The dress that Dali had designed was so large it had to be photographed on the roof of "The Roxy." Here is one of the Phillippe Halsman photos of the event. In true Halsman fashion, the model is jumping.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Salvador Dali Dulcinea
Salvador Dali's Dulcinea the imaginary beauty conjured up by the main character of the story Don Quixote in Don Quichotte of La Mancha
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Salvador Dali Battle with the Wine Skins
Salvador Dali created original lithographs in 1957
The subject was Don Quichotte or Don Quixote (Two spellings)
This is the image that depicts the part of the story having to do with the slashing of the wine skins.
The subject was Don Quichotte or Don Quixote (Two spellings)
This is the image that depicts the part of the story having to do with the slashing of the wine skins.
Salvador Dali Don Quichotte
Salvador Dali Don Quichotte also spelled Don Quixote, both spellings are used in the suite of 1957 original lithographs created by Salvador Dali
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus Salvador Dali
The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus can be seen at the Dali Museum in
St. Petersburg Florida.
One of Dali's most talked about works, is among many large impressive and well known oils created by Dali
over 40 years ago.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Salvador Dali in Switerland Surrealism exhibit
The Fondation Beyeler is devoting the first-ever comprehensive exhibition in Switzerland to Surrealism in Paris.
On view will be major works by artists such as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, and many more who either belonged to the movement or were associated with it. Surrealism was one of the most crucial artistic and literary movements of the twentieth century and had a lasting influence on it. After emerging in Paris in 1924, the movement unfolded a worldwide impact. Influenced by the writings of Sigmund Freud and under the leadership of its chief theoretician, André Breton, the Surrealists set out to change life and society by means of a new brand of art and poetry. Tapping the unconscious mind and world of dreams was to trigger an entirely unprecedented kind of creativity. "Dalí, Magritte, Miró – Surrealism in Paris" comprises about 290 masterworks and manuscripts by about 40 artists and authors.
The highlights will include a presentation of the legendary Surrealist private collections amassed by Peggy Guggenheim and by Breton’s first wife Simone Collinet. In addition to famous paintings and sculptures, objects, photographs, drawings, manuscripts, jewelry and films await discovery.
The loans to the exhibition stem from renowned private collections and public museums, in Europe and the United States.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Salvador Dali MOMA
Dalí was a New York City cultural fixture in the 1960s. When in town he resided with his wife Gala at the St. Regis Hotel, just a block away from MoMA, and was often seen dashing about from one fabulous appointment to another. Before arriving in New York in 1934, Dalí professed an uncanny familiarity with the city; this was the case as his knowledge of New York was from its numerous cinematic portrayals and not firsthand experience. Dalí sat for two Warhol Screen Tests, both made in 1966. The first (ST67) is often called Upside Down Dalí, as the 3.7-minute short was filmed with the camera upside down. Callie Angell notes he “gives a typically surreal performance” by staring imperiously and playing with a small, sequined evening bag. He even taps the bag against his cheek as if keeping rhythm with some offscreen music.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
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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Monday, August 22, 2011
Salvador Dali and Liza Minelli
Friday, August 12, 2011
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
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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.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Alice Cooper and Salvador Dali
Alice Cooper was asked by Laura Barnett:
What's your favorite museum?
The Salvador Dalí museum in Figueres, Spain. Five of the original band members were art majors, and we worshipped Dalí: we thought of ourselves as surrealists. I worked with Dalí for four days in New York in 1974. He did a sculpture of my brain. It's a brain with a chocolate eclair running down the back, and ants climbing all over it and spelling out "Dalí and Alice".
Monday, June 20, 2011
Salvador Dali in Singapore
Singapore’s ArtScience Museum
“Dali: Mind of a Genius,” ongoing until Oct. 30, which boasts over 250 works by the Spanish Surrealist.
It includes furniture, jewelry, sculptures and paintings. Most of them are iconic: the lipstick-red “Mae West Lips Sofa,” inspired by the Hollywood actress; “Dance of Time,” his melted clocks; and “Spellbound,” a painting as large as a double-decker bus, which appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie.
Both the Van Gogh and Dali shows are traveling exhibitions. The museum has its own small permanent collection—housed in three galleries on the top floor, called Curiosity, Inspiration and Expression—which contain interactive works that argues the connection between art and science.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Salvador Dali in San Diego
Salvador Dalí's "The Ascension of Christ"
While you may want to plan a vacay to San Diego to hit the beaches this summer, there's another reason to go, and one that provides air-conditioning: It's the only U.S. stop for the exhibition "El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection" Head to the San Diego Museum of Art for your only chance to see 64 famous artworks from such masters as Picasso and Dalí.
The exhibit, which opens July 9, features the work that covers the history of Spanish art over the last 500 years. You'll see oil paintings, sculptures and drawings at the Balboa Park museum.
Art aficionados will be pumped to see various facets of of Catholic Reformation art from the 16th to 18th centuries through the works of El Greco, José de Ribera and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Goya and Sanchez Coello go the royal route and offer court portraits of Spanish monarchs, balancing the portrayal of power with realistic representations.
The exhibit also includes 10 works by Joaquin Sorolla, the master of capturing simple pleasures and known for vivid, bright, strong canvasses. Sorolla's work highlights the strong national identity that characterizes Spanish art of the 19th century. The exhibition finishes with a dialogue between Cubism and Surrealism by the artists who revolutionized western art and are now household names: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, and Salvador Dalí.
If you want to check out the Spanish masters' works, the exhibit runs through to October 3. Admission is $12 for adults and $4.50 for ages seven to 17.
While you may want to plan a vacay to San Diego to hit the beaches this summer, there's another reason to go, and one that provides air-conditioning: It's the only U.S. stop for the exhibition "El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection" Head to the San Diego Museum of Art for your only chance to see 64 famous artworks from such masters as Picasso and Dalí.
The exhibit, which opens July 9, features the work that covers the history of Spanish art over the last 500 years. You'll see oil paintings, sculptures and drawings at the Balboa Park museum.
Art aficionados will be pumped to see various facets of of Catholic Reformation art from the 16th to 18th centuries through the works of El Greco, José de Ribera and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Goya and Sanchez Coello go the royal route and offer court portraits of Spanish monarchs, balancing the portrayal of power with realistic representations.
The exhibit also includes 10 works by Joaquin Sorolla, the master of capturing simple pleasures and known for vivid, bright, strong canvasses. Sorolla's work highlights the strong national identity that characterizes Spanish art of the 19th century. The exhibition finishes with a dialogue between Cubism and Surrealism by the artists who revolutionized western art and are now household names: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, and Salvador Dalí.
If you want to check out the Spanish masters' works, the exhibit runs through to October 3. Admission is $12 for adults and $4.50 for ages seven to 17.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Salvador Dali painting sells for $11Million
The 1934 painting ‘Enigmatic Elements in the Landscape,’ the surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí was sold to the Gala-Salvador Foundation for eleven million US dollars in Figueres, Spain.
“This is a prodigy of a painting, immaculate, intense and just a very good painting. It’s simply marvelous,” the director of Ginova’s Theatre-Museum, Antoni Pitxot in Figueres said.
Pitxot commented on each and every one of the ‘enigmatic’ elements to do with the painting, and which was last exhibited in 1999 in New York City’s Guggenheim Museum.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Linkedin Salvador Dali Discussion Group
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Leonardo DiCaprio buys Salvador Dali painting for more than 1 Million
Leonardo DiCaprio splashes out $1.2m on Salvador Dali painting
Chevaliers en parade
Price $1,426,500 includes buyer's premium.
Estimate$1,200,000 - $1,800,000 Sale Information
Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale
4 May 2011
Sale made by:
Christies
Sale made by:
Christies
New York, Rockefeller Plaza
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Monday, May 2, 2011
Salvador Dali photographs
88 unpublished photographs of Salvador Dalí by Philippe Halsman on show
CNA / Marina López / Toni Bardia
Barcelona (ACN).– Unpublished photographs of the Surrealist Catalan painter Salvador Dalí made by Philippe Halsman are on show at the Gala Dalí Castle in Púbol, North of Girona and close to the Costa Brava. Dalí and Halsman had a friendship that lasted 37 years and the photographs reflect these close ties. The American photographer was popularly known for his serious portraits in 'Life' magazine, where a hundred covers carried his signature. Halsman showed his more transgressive side when he met Salvador Dalí. He left aside the photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Alfred Hitchcock, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill and Pablo Picasso to fully enter into an innovative project that sought to “shoot thinking” and reach a new concept of art.
CNA / Marina López / Toni Bardia
Barcelona (ACN).– Unpublished photographs of the Surrealist Catalan painter Salvador Dalí made by Philippe Halsman are on show at the Gala Dalí Castle in Púbol, North of Girona and close to the Costa Brava. Dalí and Halsman had a friendship that lasted 37 years and the photographs reflect these close ties. The American photographer was popularly known for his serious portraits in 'Life' magazine, where a hundred covers carried his signature. Halsman showed his more transgressive side when he met Salvador Dalí. He left aside the photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Alfred Hitchcock, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill and Pablo Picasso to fully enter into an innovative project that sought to “shoot thinking” and reach a new concept of art.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Salvador Dali exhibit in Singapore
Visitors to the ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands will soon be able to enter the surreal mind of Salvador Dalí, one of the 20th century’s best-known artists.
Dalí: Mind of a Genius – The Exhibition, will display over 250 Dalí artworks, making this the first time ever that such a large number of his masterpieces are shown within a single venue in Singapore.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
San Diego Museum of Art Salvador Dali
For the first and only time in the United States, The San Diego Museum of Art presents the exhibition “From El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection.” Displaying 64 Spanish oil paintings, sculptures, and drawings from more than 25 master painters, the exhibition, on view from July 8 to November 4, 2011, presents a remarkable overview and visual representation of the progression and history of art in Spain over the last 500 years.
The San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado
Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
(619) 232-7931
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