Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

Josué, brave au combat (Joshua 10)

細節
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Josué, brave au combat (Joshua 10)
signed and dated 'Dalí 1964' (lower right)
brush and India ink and gold paint on paper
18 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. (47.5 x 35.2 cm.)
Executed in 1964
來源
Acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent to the present owner.
出版
Rizzoli (ed.), Biblia Sacra vulgatæ editionis, vol. I, Rome, 1967 (illustrated p. 361).
展覽
Turin, Palazzo Bricherasio, Salvador Dalí, la vita è sogno, November 1996 - March 1997.
Bruges, Stichting Sint-Jan, Salvador Dalí, Doeken & Aquarellen, July - November 1997, no. 73 (illustrated p. 152).
Augsburg, Römisches Museum, Dalí, Mara e Beppe, Bilder einer Freundschaft, September – November 2000.
注意事項
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拍品專文

The following four works belong to a unique series of illustrations Salvador Dalí executed in 1964 for Biblia Sacra, an illustrated edition of the Bible published by Rizzoli, between 1967 and 1969. Incredibly successful, the illustrations were later re-published in subsequent editions in Barcelona, Paris and Germany.

Drawing from the Bible’s mystic dimension and from his own taste for grandiose, impenetrable imagery, Dalí was able to
create a series of compelling illustrations which – although inspired by the scriptures – added a number of new images to the artist’s personal delirious saga. A Spaniard who had certainly absorbed his country’s fervent Catholic faith, Dalí had incorporated Christian iconography in his artistic universe well before the commission for the Bible’s illustrations. From the Crucifixion, to the Virgin Mary, Dalí had already re-appropriated the mighty spell of Christian imagery into his paintings, merging the miraculous visions and impenetrable mysteries of Catholicism into the hallucinatory world
of his art. The here presented illustrations for Biblia Sacra thus continue a theme that obsessed and fascinated Dalí.

In its entirety, the present series illustrates the mesmerising variety of graphic effects deployed by Dalì in his drawings, which range from incredibly evocative drips to mesmerising effusions of colour. In two particularly dramatic drawings, Dalí was able to translate the terror and awe of the sacred scripture through rich blotching effects: in Flagellation à la colonne (lot 300) and in David et Goliath (lot 299) violent drips of dark ink and vivid red are used to evoke the sublimation of suffering that is at the core of the Bible’s most gripping sacred stories. Displaying Dalí’s mighty powers as a draughtsman, the illustrations for Biblia Sacra are a brilliant rendition of the arresting force of Christianity’s sacred text merged with Dalinian pathos and subversion.

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