Salvador Dali, Nu à la jarretière, 1969/70, firmato, Limited

Salvador Dalí

Figueras 1904 - 1989

Nu à la jarretiére (from the Hippies series), 1969/1970

Colored drypoint etching on fibrous Japanese laid paper

Hand-signed in pencil lower right

limited lower left: LXIII/C

Sheet size: approx. 65 x 51 cm

Catalog raisonné Michler/Löpsinger 381

very good condition (see photos)
Authenticity is guaranteed in writing.


Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech attended painting courses at the municipal art school in his hometown of Figueras when he was fourteen years old. Since 1921 he has studied at the Madrid Art Academy, where he met representatives of the artistic avant-garde such as Luis Buñuel and Federico Garcia Lorca and increasingly came under the influence of the pittura metafisica of Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà. Expelled from the academy, Dalí became increasingly interested in Italian Futurism from 1926 onwards and went to Paris in 1928, where he came into contact with the Surrealist movement around André Breton. Familiar with the work of Sigmund Freud, Dalí increasingly combines the dreamlike with the artistic means of automatism, paranoid delusions with elements of the subconscious and unreal fantasies with the old master's meticulous painting technique. His first exhibition in Paris at the Galerie Goemans in 1929 was a great success. During this time, two surrealist films were made together with Buñuel. Dalí took the step into the American public when he took part in the exhibition "Surrealist Paintings, Drawings and Photographs" at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. In 1934 there was a break with the surrealist group around Breton. Dalí spent the following years in New York, where his first major retrospective was shown in 1941. Three years later he designed the costumes and sets for three ballet performances and wrote numerous theoretical texts. In Hollywood, Dalí worked with Walt Disney and in the same year created the set for the famous dream scene in Alfred Hitchcock's film "Spellbound, The House of Dr. Edwards". He also created numerous illustrations for various book editions by the American publisher Doubleday. The artist only returned to Spain in 1948. The late work created there increasingly shows religious and mystical elements that Dalí, who was intensively dealing with physical theories at the time, linked with elements from science. In the following years, Dalí presented his current works in several major exhibitions, including in Rome, Venice and New York. At the end of the 1950s, the artist raised the “provocation to a prophetic system” and celebrated this principle in numerous happenings that caused a stir in the 1960s. He received numerous awards and honors: in 1964 the Order of Queen Isabella, in 1978 he was admitted to the Académie des Beaux-Arts de L'Institut de France, since 1982 he has held the title "Marquis de Púbol" and in 1971 he was awarded the Salvador in Cleveland Dalí Museum opens. Dalí was subsequently honored with several retrospective exhibitions, in 1979 at the Center Pompidou, Paris and the Tate Gallery, London, and in 1983 in Madrid and Barcelona. His last major work was the construction of the theater-museum in his birthplace Figueras, to which the artist dedicated himself in the 1970s.