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Unpublished map of Dalí-Picasso correspondence.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 relation was tinged with ambivalence and imbalance: to the fascination of one (Dalí) responded the distance and the silences of the other (Picasso). Despite the regular shipments and solicitations of Dalí, Picasso seems to have remained constantly silent and mutical to the address of the surrealist painter. Despite some attested meetings, we do not know the slightest letter addressed by Picasso to Dalí who, fascinated and obsessed with the genius of his " best enemy " , seems to have rocked an illusory and without return friend: "Each year , I sent him a postcard that evoked an old story he had told me. Picasso never answered me but I knew he was very appreciated by my annual card and this memory. "( " How We become Dali ").

Pel Juliol. Neither Dona nor Cargol. This “old story” mentioned by Dalí echoes the memory of a Picasso stay in Cadaqués. Picasso, who had spent the summer of 1910 on the Dalinian lands with Fernande Olivier and Ramón Pitchot, had attended the flight of María, the sister of Pitchot. Dalí tells it as follows: "There was a contract from Cadaqués […] one day that her lover wanted to kiss her, she refused and went out on the balcony, shouting: “ Pel Juliol. Neither Dona nor Cargol. ”(“ In July. Neither woman nor snail ”). Therefore , this saying was, almost systematically, mentioned by Dalí in his missives, wishing, in terms of a common 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.