Lady Godiva EA 1972 HS

Year1972

Hand SignedLower Right in Pencil 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with GlassNatural Wood Frame w/ White Mat 

Purchased fromPrivate Collector 2022 

Provenance / HistoryAs far, as I know, the private collector has bought it from an auction in Paris. 

Story / Additional InfoA part from the series “Les Chevaux de Dali”. This edition was printed during the lifetime of Salvador Dali and with his consent. Each lithograph was authorized, supervised and validated by Salvador Dali. Published by Wajntraub & Carpentier in 1972, one of 250 lithographs. Hand signed by Salvador Dali in lower right and pencil marked E.A. (Eprevue d’artiste) in lower left. Paper size 61.5x49.5cm, framed under glass, frame size 63.5x51.5cm. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID157485

Salvador Dali - Spain

Art Brokerage: Park West Artist: Salvador Dali Spanish Artist: Salvador Dalí was a renowned Spanish Surrealist artist known for his enigmatic paintings of dreamscapes and religious themes. The Persistence of Memory (1931), arguably his best known work, visually manifests the strangeness of time by depicting clocks melting in an idyllic landscape. "One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams," he once reflected. Born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he displayed a great aptitude for the visual arts as a teenager. Three years after his first exhibition at the age of 14, he enrolled at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. At school, he emulated many contemporary styles but also the works of Johannes Vermeer and Diego Velázquez. During his visits to Paris in the late 1920s, he was introduced to the Surrealist movement by René Magritte and Joan Miró. Though the concept of Surrealism was new to him, Dalí was already well versed in the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. Dabbling in various projects throughout his long career, in 1942 he published the book The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí. A mixture of self-aggrandizing confessions and sadistic fantasies about his childhood, the book further outlined the artist's outlandish persona. However, his pronounced sense of ego was not always unfounded, as evinced in his works inclusion in Alfred Hitchcock's famous dream sequence from the film Spellbound (1945). Dalí died on January 23, 1989 in his hometown of Figueres, Spain. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, among others. Listings wanted.