Les fleurs-lèvres
1967
A 1967 surrealist composition by Salvador Dalí combining gouache, watercolor, and felt-tip pen on paper. The title 'Les fleurs-lèvres' (Flower-Lips) reflects Dalí's characteristic dreamlike imagery and provocative exploration of form and meaning.
- Medium
- gouache, watercolour and felt-tip pen on paper
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
June 30, 2022
Estimate: $60,000 to $80,000
Lot 402
Artists in conversation
René Magritte
Belgian · b. 1898
Magritte shared Dalí's surrealist vocabulary of dreamlike imagery and provocative transformations of everyday forms, frequently merging organic elements like flowers and body parts into disorienting compositions with precise painterly technique.
Meret Oppenheim
Swiss-German · b. 1913
Oppenheim created surrealist works on paper and mixed media pieces that provocatively fused natural forms such as flowers and botanical elements with the human body, carrying the same sensual and poetic ambiguity found in this piece.
Leonora Carrington
British-Mexican · b. 1917
Carrington produced intimate surrealist works on paper combining watercolor and mixed media techniques with fantastical dreamlike imagery, blending organic natural forms with mysterious symbolic narratives in a style tonally close to this Dalí composition.
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