Salvador DALI (after) - The Music, bas relief

Salvador DALI (d’après) - La musique, bas relief 2

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Salvador DALI (after)

The Music

The bas relief, depicted "The Music", comes from an artwork of the Master Salvador Dalì and it was realized by the artisans of the Istituto Grafico Italiano with the technique of transference from the flat figure to the relief. The subject is put in a galvanic plating, in silver and in gold. Finally it is hand colored by the IGI's artisans.

In the middle there is a female figure, playing a lyre, a typical instrument of the Greek mythology. The woman seems like a nymph, dressed with a drapery and light clothing. Since he was a child, as he wrote in the "Secret life", the music has been part of his life, above all thanks to the Pichot's, a family of musicians, painters and artists that lived in Cadaques, as the Dalì's family. It was Pepito Pichot to push the father to make young Salvador study art. The other brother, the cellist Ricardo, was portrayed by Dalì when he was only sixteen, this is showing of his premature talent. The music had represented a point of reference for Dalì's creativity, in fact in many artworks we find often musical instruments, above all the piano, childhood memory related to his father, and the harp, symbol of nostalgia and melancholy.

The bas relief is signed in plate and numbered 850/999.

Salvador Dali : Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is a surrealist painter, draughtsman, sculptuor, lithograph, writter, photographer from catalan origins. Born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, known as Salvador Dalí, Titled "Marqués de Dalí de Púbol" by the king of Spain in 1982. He is considered as one of the major figures of surrealism and most famous painters of the 20th century. His works are exhibited all over the world : Fundació Gala - Salvador Dalí, Museo Patio Herreriano,The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection,The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) in Spain. The Walker Art Center, The Dali Museum, The Broad Art Foundation, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, The Carnegie Museum of art, The National Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and The Washington in The US. The Kunsthaus Zurich and The KunstMuseum Bern in Switzerland. The Vancouver Art Gallery and The Museum of Fine-Arts in Canada. The "Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto" (Italy), Das Museum Folkwang and The Museum Ludwig (Köln) (Germany), The "Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian" (Portugal), The "Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma" (Finland), Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (Iran), The Modern Museum - Moderna Museet (Sweden), The "Centre Pompidou" - Museum of Modern Art (France), The Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), The Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice), The Tate Collection (UK), The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) (Australia) among many others...