Salvador DaliViola Cogitans – Flora Dalinae. Viola Thinking. Pansy. 1968

( €9,750  $10,500 )

Etching with stencil colouring. 1968. Numbered from the edition of 200 on Arches wove paper. Printed at the Atelier Rigal Paris 1968 and Ateliers d’Art Ibis for the stencil colouring. Issued by Commerz Union Anstalt, Germany, 1968.

 Reference: Michler Lopsinger – Dali etchings and mixed media prints no 229.

Excellent impression with very strong colours. On pale cream wove Arches paper. Excellent original condition. Full margins. Sheet: 780 x 568mm. Plate/image: 590 x 388mm.

This work is from the famous 1968 series of images which Dali created as an imaginary album of Flora, using the humorous series title ‘Flora Dalinae – Dali Flowers’  in the manner of the great 19th century Flora Albums with Latin flower names.  He created figure characters which seem to emerge from the flower forms. These compositions have become amongst the most renowned of his 60s period prints.