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Salvador Dali Limited Edition Titled "Sleep" Mint Condition
12665 - Superb limited edition by the late Salvador Dali titled "Sleep" This edition is from one of his most famous paintings. One of a rare 75 edition published Worldwide, number 55/75. Supplied with authentication certificate (signed by the Master Printer) along with replacement valuation for £1200 and biographical details on Dali (free of charge) The quality of this limited edition is exceptional, and in mint condition. “Sleep” is a 1937 painting by artist Salvador Dalí, and is one of his most recognizable works. The painting is a visual rendering of the body's collapse into sleep, as if it was a collapse into a separate condition of being. Against a deep blue summer sky, a huge disembodied head with eyes dissolved in sleep, hangs suspended over an almost bare landscape. The head is "soft", vulnerable and distorted. And what should be a neck tapers away to drop limply over a crutch. A dog appears on the left, its head in a crutch too, as if half asleep itself. The head is supported above land by a series of wooden crutches. The mouth, nose and also eyes are all held in place by the crutches, suggesting that the head might collapse if they were removed. Crutches are a familiar motif in Dali’s works. As Dali attests in his book, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, “I have often imagined the monster of sleep as a heavy, giant head with a tapering body held up by the crutches of reality. When the crutches break we have the sensation of falling.”. H: 85.0cm W: 120.0cm D: 4.0cm
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