£500
A rare signed limited edition artist proof 63/75 pencil signed Salvador Dali lithograph print titled 'The Flowering Of Inspiration - Gala En Fleurs". The lithograph measures approx. 75cm high and 54.5cm (see condition report)
The flowering head motif first appears in Dalí's work in the early 1930s. His portrait of the Viscountess Marie-Laure de Noailles of 1932 depicts the beautiful young aristocrat with her head covered in colorful summer flowers and a rose emerging from her cheek. By 1934, flowers have covered the entire head of a lascivious woman in The Dream Placing a Hand on a Man's Shoulder, and in Woman with a Head of Roses of 1935 an anonymous draped female figure is placed in an empty receding space, her head blossoming into roses. The present beautifully preserved watercolor lithograph portrays a curvaceous phantom-like woman clothed in a loosely draped gown, her head replaced by a bouquet of bright blooms. The title of the work The Flowering of Inspiration or alternatively Gala en fleurs, reveals that the identity of this figure is the artist's wife and muse Gala.
Believed to be coffee stains to left side. See photos.
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