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Salvador Dali: "Swans Reflecting Elephants, 1937". Offset Lithograph.
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Salvador Dali: "Swans Reflecting Elephants, 1937". Offset Lithograph.
Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali. This painting is from Dali's Paranoiac-critical period. Painted using oil on canvas, it contains one of Dali's famous double images. The double images were a major part of Dalí's "paranoia-critical method," which he put forward in his 1935 essay "The Conquest of the Irrational." He explained his process as a "spontaneous method of irrational understanding based upon the interpretative critical association of delirious phenomena." Dali used this method to bring forth the hallucinatory forms, double images, and visual illusions that filled his paintings during the Thirties.
As with the earlier Metamorphosis of Narcissus, Swans Reflecting Elephants uses the reflection in a lake to create the double image seen in the painting. The three swans in front of bleak, leafless trees are reflected in the lake so that the swans' necks become the elephants' trunks, the swans' bodies become the elephants' ears, and the trees become the legs of the elephants. In the background of the painting is a Catalan landscape depicted in fiery fall colors, the brushwork creating swirls in the cliffs that surround the lake, to contrast with the stillness of the water. The painting was one of many art pieces stolen by the Nazis in France and Belgium between 1940 and 1944.
Nooit ingelijst geweest en is bewaard in een donker archiefopslag tussen beschermend zuurvrij papier. De getoonde foto's zijn onderdeel van de beschrijving, de getoonde lijst(maat) zijn ter illustratie en is niet bijgevoegd. Dit kunstwerk wordt zorgvuldig stevig verpakt en in beschermend zuurvrij papier verzonden. Bij vragen kunt u contact opnemen door het sturen van een bericht.
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ConditionExcellentColorsMulti ColorMaterialPaperNumber of items1ArtistsSalvador DaliOrientationLandscapeArt sizeMediumHeight61 cmWidth91 cm
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Sittard, NetherlandsOn Whoppah since July 2024 • 137 sales