Artist: Salvador Dalí (1904 - 1989)
Medium: Lithograph with colour etching on archival paper (95/175)
Dimensions: 29'' x 36''

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About This Piece
In 1971, Dalí created a suite of 12 large-scale works entitled Memories of Surrealism. Together, the suite functions as a retrospective homage to the Surrealist ethos that Dalí had helped create and that had shaped his entire artistic identity. In this series, Dalí revisits the great motifs of his career, the melting forms, the erotic metamorphoses, the classical references, and the dreamlike juxtapositions, yet imbues them with the polished clarity that characterizes his mature style. Each image is a distillation of Surrealism’s core mission: to blend the familiar and the fantastic, the conscious and the subconscious, into a single visual language. Surrealist Crutches is built from the ideas that define Dalí as a master, using some of his finest surrealistic imagery. Dalí creates a surrealist dream with the focal point of the crutch, along with a butterfly, rocks, and a spinning man off to the side. This etching is hand signed by Salvador Dalí.

Biography
Salvador Dalí was an icon of Surrealism, the 20th-century avant-garde movement that sought to release unconscious creative potential through art that featured dreamlike imagery. Dalí’s fantastical prints, paintings, sculptures, films, and writing helped cement the movement’s identity. Working off psychoanalytic ideas, Dalí rendered fantastical creatures and landscapes that could unsettle and awe. His 1931 work The Persistence of Memory is one of the most recognizable artworks of all time. Dalí exhibited widely in his lifetime, and his works belong in the collections of institutions including the Tate, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.