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Salvador Dalí — Issun-bōshi (The Inch-High Samurai), from Japanese Fairy Tales
Salvador Dalí

Issun-bōshi (The Inch-High Samurai), from Japanese Fairy Tales

Salvador Dalí's surrealist interpretation of a Japanese fairy tale rendered as a drypoint with pochoir in colors. The work combines Dalí's distinctive surrealist imagery with Eastern cultural subject matter, printed on Arches paper with full margins.

Medium
Drypoint with pochoir in colours, on Arches paper, with full margins.
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Auction House · Phillips

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Evening & Day Editions

January 23, 2020

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Spotted works by Salvador Dalí

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Hamilton Selway Gallery

12 spotted

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Art Institute of Chicago

3 spotted

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Alex Capecelatro

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Saul Beceiro Novo

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Salvador Dalí, Issun-bōshi (The Inch-High Samurai), from Japanese Fairy Tales

Salvador Dalí's surrealist interpretation of a Japanese fairy tale rendered as a drypoint with pochoir in colors. The work combines Dalí's distinctive surrealist imagery with Eastern cultural subject matter, printed on Arches paper with full margins.

Medium
Drypoint with pochoir in colours, on Arches paper, with full margins.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Surrealism, Color, Fairy Tales, Printmaking, Dalí, Pochoir, Narrative, Japanese Influence, Spanish art, Drypoint

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Collected by

Hamilton Selway Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Alex Capecelatro, Saul Beceiro Novo