Salvador DALÍ poses with his “Retrospective Bust of a Woman”.

Salvador Dali (1904.1989)

Original photograph.

Vintage silver print depicting Dalí in his suite at the Hôtel Meurice in Paris. Circa 1970.

Faithful to his surrealist scenes, Dalí poses, seated at a desk, in front of his object sculpture “ Retrospective Bust of a Woman ”.

To his left, a hyperrealist sculpture by the American artist John de Andrea; to his right, realism in the flesh: a Spanish model named Albina.

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Photographer: Manuel Litran. Handwritten annotations on the back and collection stamp.

Size: 30 x 40 cm.

Retrospective bust of a woman was first presented at the Pierre Colle gallery in Paris in June 1933, then at the Salon des Surindépendants in October of the same year under a second title: Abundance.

In this work, Dalí uses an assemblage symptomatic of his surrealist period of the 1930s: an inkwell with the characters from Millet's Angelus, a baguette, a zoetrope and ears of corn, all fixed on a porcelain bust on which the artist painted ants. Originally, this bust was probably a wig head.