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Salvador Dalí — Les petits chevaux, from Poèmes de Mao Tse-Tung (The Little Horses, from Poems by Mao Zedong)
Salvador Dalí

Les petits chevaux, from Poèmes de Mao Tse-Tung (The Little Horses, from Poems by Mao Zedong)

In this striking print, Salvador Dalí employs the delicate yet precise medium of heliogravure reworked in drypoint to conjure a dreamlike vision of small horses rendered with his signature surrealist intensity. Executed on Chinois ancien paper, the work carries an air of refined antiquity, its full margins framing the composition with an elegant restraint. Created as part of his illustrated edition of Mao Zedong's poems, Dalí bridges the poetic and the fantastical, merging Eastern literary tradition with his own unmistakable imaginative world.

Medium
Heliogravure reworked in drypoint, on Chinois ancien paper, with full margins,

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Evening & Day Editions

June 9, 2016

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Salvador Dalí, Les petits chevaux, from Poèmes de Mao Tse-Tung (The Little Horses, from Poems by Mao Zedong)

In this striking print, Salvador Dalí employs the delicate yet precise medium of heliogravure reworked in drypoint to conjure a dreamlike vision of small horses rendered with his signature surrealist intensity. Executed on Chinois ancien paper, the work carries an air of refined antiquity, its full margins framing the composition with an elegant restraint. Created as part of his illustrated edition of Mao Zedong's poems, Dalí bridges the poetic and the fantastical, merging Eastern literary tradition with his own unmistakable imaginative world.

Medium
Heliogravure reworked in drypoint, on Chinois ancien paper, with full margins,
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Surrealism, 20th Century, Limited Edition Print, Male Artist, Surrealist Master, Heliogravure, Printmaking, Book Illustration, Equestrian Subject, Horses, Figurative Art, Spanish Artist, Warm Tones, Figurative, Drypoint

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Collected by

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