Salvador DALÍ : Le jeune Icare (Young Icarus), 1979

By DALI Salvador (1904-1989)

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)
Le jeune Icare (Young Icarus), 1979

Original woodcut printed in colours on Arches wove paper

Signed in the block upper left; unsigned and unnumbered in pencil, as issued in the book

Dimensions:
+ Sheet: 55.5 × 37.5 cm (21.9 × 14.8 in.)
+ Image: approx. 27 × 21 cm (10.6 × 8.3 in.)

Condition: Good condition. Deckle edges preserved on the right and lower edges; small losses to the deckle at the lower left. Unframed.

References: Michler & Löpsinger 1525–1538; Field 79-2

Period: after a 1976 watercolour; cut and printed by Matthieu, Zurich, 1978; published 1979

From L’Art d’aimer d’Ovide, Centre Culturel de Paris, 1979, edition of 250 copies.

Ovid tells the tale of Daedalus and Icarus in Book II of the Art of Love; Dalí shows the winged figure brooding as a spectral form rises behind him.

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