This 1972 etching and heliogravure by Salvador Dalí depicts a Lilium Longiflorum flower rendered in the artist's characteristic surrealist style, transforming the botanical subject into a dreamlike form that suggests the ephemeral nature of time as indicated by the subtitle "Vel Tempus Evanescnes." Part of the Surrealistic Flowers series, the work was printed in color by the renowned Parisian workshops Ateliers Rigal and Draeger and published by Editions Graphiques Internationales, with this impression being one of 350 numbered examples on Arches wove paper. The combination of traditional printmaking techniques with Dalí's imaginative vision creates a richly textured surface that elevates the humble flower into a meditation on transience and the illogical nature of perception.