Color lithograph according to Salvador Dali's original 1979 gouache, paper
Privileg cotton, dimensions: 41 x 32 cm, signed on the plate, on the back a proof of the limited
edition of 800 copies and year of publication 1979, Dalart Gala edition, original certificate attached.
Cobea - Pisum Sensuale (Sensual Pea) is part of the FlorDali series of 10 works
Dalego (Rose Papillon - Lys musical - Marguerites - Passion flower - Cobea - Begonia - Arbre lunes -.
Pensée -Dahlia - Arbre soleil).
The lithographs were originally intended as a gift for visitors to an exhibition of gouaches by
Salvador Dali at the Hotel Le Meurice in Paris. For an unknown reason, they were not donated 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. It was where 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.
Dali created an imaginary album of Flora, using the humorous title of the series "Flora Dalinae - Dali Flowers" in imitation of the great 19th-century albums. This series features 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 eye motif, the crow's feet and the figure evoking associations with 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.
