Salvador DaliAnemone per Anti Pasti. Anemone as a First Course. 1972

Drypoint with heliogravure in black ink and additional colours. 1972. Signed in pencil. Numbered from the edition of 350. Printed in the studios of Rigal and Draeger, Paris 1972. Edition issued by Editions Graphiques Internationales, Paris, with their stamp on the reverse. Issued in the series: ' Surrealistic Flowers'.

Reference: Field Dali Graphic Works no 72-7A. Michler Lopsinger: Dali Etchings and Mixed-Media No 551.

Excellent impression with the drypoint strong and very fresh colours. On Arches paper. Excellent condition; very slight trace of previous edge mounting. Sheet: 750 x 554.  (29 1.2 x 21 3/4 ins. 

In the late 1960's and early1970's  Dali worked on some of his most inventive and light-hearted imagery - Surrealist Flowers. That is to say that, in the manner of the antique Flora and Fauna albums of engraving, he created images of flowers and shrubs in which the leaves and foliage  are mixed with surrealistic concepts of totally different but everyday forms - here spoons and cutlery and eating.