lithograph, paper, 69 x 99 cm
Original color lithograph, Arches velin paper of high weight dimensions: 69 x 99 cm in light of passe - partout of 82 x 110 cm; limited edition of 4880 pieces; signed on the plate, publisher: Inter Art Senans, Basel, Switzerland; print: Atelier Matthieu, Zürich; on the back, p.d. certificate with the description of the edition and the piece number written in crayon: No 1'772/4880.
Lithograph according to a collage created especially for this purpose by Salvador Dali and printed by the Matthieu Company in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1981.
Work described and reproduced in catalogs:
- Salvador Dali. Catalogue Raisonné of Prints II. Lithographs and Wood Engravings 1956-1980. edited by Ralf Michler and Lutz
- W. Löpsinger, Prestel, Munich - New York 1995, p. 179, cat. 1587 (a), il. b/w, ill. b. 87
- Sahli #234
The print in question is a great rarity, it was presented only twice on the Polish market by the auction houses Agra Art and Desa Unicum.
Lit: Miłosz Kargol, Zuzanna Mortka, Cracow Auction House
The series of works "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969) by Salvador Dali consists of 12 color lithographs based on illustrations contained in Pierre-Antoine Poiteau's Pomologie française: recueil des plus beaux Fruits Cultivés en France, a French botanical encyclopedia published in 1846.
In the "Flordali" series of lithographs, Salvador Dali brought together many motifs distinctive to his work. The freedom of composition and sensitivity to color influenced the decorativeness of the works, which in their form are the result of the artist's imagination's processing of botanical portraits of fruit. In the series "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969), fanciful, anthropomorphized plants carry humorous and erotic content, among other things. Salvador Dali saw fruit as a potential starting point for creating surreal visions that tell complex stories. 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 that evokes Don Quixote.
Playing with the anthropomorphization of plants and fruits has its analogues in earlier eras of European art history, including paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Salvador Dali's works from the series "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969) were produced in multiple series, which differed in both edition and type of paper. It is worth noting that the elements present in the series "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969) were used by Salvador Dali in a later series of lithographic works from the 1980s titled "Flordali - Les Fruits" (1969). "Flordali II".
