Salvador Dali writes to Pablo Picasso. Map illustrated with original drawings.

Salvador Dali (1904.1989)

Autograph card signed in Pablo Picasso.

A page in-12 ° oblong in Catalan.

SLND [probably 1958 or 1959].

Unpublished map of Dalí-Picasso correspondence.

On the back of a silver photography card representing a view of his house and the bay of Port-Ligat. Signed twice by Dalí.

Dalí invites Picasso to Port-Ligat. Superb illustrated document from the Catalan painter to his elder. The surrealist invitation is decorated with small drawings of a shooting star, a guitar, three birds and two snails illustrating a kiss.

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OLE !! 

Punt de Trobada Port Lligat

Pel Juliol. Neither Dona nor Cargol.

A Peto
Gala. Dali.

Translation: "Hi, Port lligat meeting point. For July, neither woman nor snail. A kiss. Gala. Dalí "

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From their first meeting in Paris in 1926, the Dalí-Picasso relationship was tinged with ambivalence and imbalance: the fascination of one (Dalí) was matched by the distance and silence of the other (Picasso). Despite Dalí's regular communications and requests, Picasso seems to have remained constantly silent and mute when addressing the surrealist painter. Despite a few attested meetings, we do not know of a single letter addressed by Picasso to Dalí who, fascinated and obsessed by the genius of his " best enemy " , seems to have lulled himself into an illusory and unrequited friendship: "Every year, I sent him a postcard that evoked an old story he had told me. Picasso never replied, but I knew that he greatly appreciated my annual card and this souvenir." ( "How One Becomes Dali").

Pel juliol. Ni Dona ni Cargol. This "old story" mentioned by Dalí echoes the memory of Picasso's stay in Cadaqués. Picasso, who had spent the summer of 1910 in Dalí's lands with Fernande Olivier and Ramón Pitchot, had witnessed the flight of María, Pitchot's sister. Dalí recounts it thus: "There was a contralto in Cadaqués […] One day when her lover wanted to kiss her, she refused and went out onto the balcony shouting: " Pel juliol. Ni Dona ni Cargol. " ("In July. Neither woman nor snail")." From then on, this saying was almost systematically mentioned by Dalí in his missives, hoping, through the prism of a shared and intimate memory, to give Picasso nostalgia for Catalan summers ( Dalí. Letters to Picasso. pp. 186-187).

Bibliography: Dalí. Letters in Picasso (1927.1970). L. Madeline. Ed. The walker.