Color lithograph according to Salvador Dali's original 1979 gouache, Privileg cotton paper, dimensions: 41 x 32 cm, signed on the plate, on the back proof of the limited edition of 800 copies and the year of publication 1979, heir edition : Dalart Gala. Original certificate attached.
Le Begonia is part of the FlorDali series consisting of 10 works by Dalé (Rose Papillon - Lys musical - Marguerites - Passion flower - Cobea - Begonia - Arbre lunes - Pensée -Dahlia - Arbre soleil).
The lithographs were originally intended as gifts for guests of an exhibition of Salvador Dali's gouaches at Hotel Le Meurice in Paris. For an unknown reason, they were not gifted, and for more than half a century they were in the inventory of Hotel Le Meurice in Paris.
The exclusive Hotel Le Meurice was a favorite place for great artists and thinkers and was the center of world exhibitions. In it Pablo Picasso held his wedding reception, and Salvadore Dali spent a month each year for 30 years in the old Royal Suite (comprising rooms 106 and 108), used by King Alfonso XIII.Others include the Wright brothers, Giorgio de Chirico, Rudyard Kipling, Edmond Rostand, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Paul Morand, Walter Lippmann, Yehudi Menuhin, Seiji Ozawa, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Plácido Domingo.
"Flordali "are fanciful, anthropomorphized plants carrying humorous and erotic content, among other things. Also present throughout the series are characteristic elements of Salvador Dali's paintings, such as the motif of the eye, the crow's feet and the figure that brings to mind Don Quixote. Dali manages to change the meaning of the paintings, their interrelationships and essentially creates a new concept and "way of seeing" in his own surreal, unique style.
