£1,500 - £2,000
Limited Edition Salvador Dali "Sleep"
8821 - Limited edition by the late Salvador Dali titled "Sleep" This edition is from one on his most famous paintings. One of a rare 95 edition published Worldwide. Superbly framed in a hand finished bespoke frame and mounted to a high standard. Supplied with authentication certificate (signed by the Master Printer) along with replacement valuation for £2000 and biographical details on Dali (free of charge) Condition is excellent. "Sleep" is a 1937 painting by artist Salvador Dalí, and is one of his most recognizable works. The painting is a visual rendering of the body's collapse into sleep, as if it was a collapse into a separate condition of being. Against a deep blue summer sky, a huge disembodied head with eyes dissolved in sleep, hangs suspended over an almost bare landscape. The head is "soft", vulnerable and distorted. And what should be a neck tapers away to drop limply over a crutch. A dog appears on the left, its head in a crutch too, as if half asleep itself. The head is supported above land by a series of wooden crutches. The mouth, nose and also eyes are all held in place by the crutches, suggesting that the head might collapse if they were removed. Crutches are a familiar motif in Dali's works. As Dali attests in his book, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, "I have often imagined the monster of sleep as a heavy, giant head with a tapering body held up by the crutches of reality. When the crutches break we have the sensation of falling.". H: 103.0cm W: 128.0cm D: 4.0cm
