Salvador Dalí - Illustrated autograph manuscript. 14 original drawings. 1930.

Salvador Dali (1904.1989)

Illustrated autograph manuscript.

A large in-4 ° page (19.90 x 27.30 cm) taken from a notebook.

In Catalan. SLND [1930]

« Recently, through a clearly paranoid process, I obtained the image of a woman whose position, shadows and morphology, without altering or distorting its real appearance, are at the same time a horse. »»

Remarkable manuscript seeming to be the preparatory draft for his painting “ Dormant, horse, invisible lion” , produced in 1930 and today kept at the Center Pompidou.

The surrealist painter, in a very reflected process, stages the structure of his work which develops for the first time the process of appearance of double, triple, and multiple images: the tangle of forms delivering the appearance of the appearance of an odalisque transformed into a lion and in horse.

In the second part of the manuscript, Dalí imagines a mosquito on the north face of a cup of coffee with swirling liquid.

The manuscript is illustrated on the sidelines of fourteen sketches of faces, a feminine back and the mythical Dalinian crutch, crunched on the spot by Dalí. We guess Gala's profile on the lower margins and what seems to be a self-portrait of manuscript.

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Original version: a character (Sigue) Mira Extasiado una Odalisca DESNUDA, that Llega con a poso vítrico bostezo i is tiende en el suelo in the re -reit of fig. A. IMMOSEMENTAMENT SEDE Dormida in the posicion of Figura B. Figura B POR THE ESPECIAL CONJUNCION OF SOMBROS LINEAS I REFLEJOS DEL SUELO REPRESTA SIMULTANEADE 3 IMAGESNESTAS. Muger Dormida that Benimos de Citar a Caballo i a leon. Esas 3 Coincidentcias permitted the appear of los back animals unicamese in the momento in that estos adquerren el movimiento o sea of ​​figura b arose the c in that el leon lebanta the cola; Reduct the Boca para roar, from the figura c al d in that el leon puede entered etc.

The Figura d Despues de Haberse Movido in todas Direciones, is reconstructed Gradualmerte Hasta Coincidir de Nuevo Con la Figura B, the figura b posed to the e, from the e a f, o Seno del cabalo that levanta the Cabeza, este puede desaparecercerce Haciendose Pequeño in El Orizonte. El Personage del Principio sigue Tan Estupefacto The transformacion of the Odalisca into leon that no se da cuenta del Peligro that este representa i no huya hasta el momento in el que el zol le ruge as in the cara, cuando el cabalo empieza a morder Aparece de Nuevo i se lo ven en Primer Término Inmovil de Asombro.

Hilos bots; Gujas de Coser, sober una mesa o a neceser abierto.

Figura A. Al Son by Una Musica Apropiada is forman back Pequeños Posts Constituidos por La Aguja (Cuerpo) I El Botón (Cabeza). Los Tales Personajes Danzan la Danza del Venre Gracias has the flexibilidad of that his dotadas las agujas. An ilo posed a doble las agujas f. B. In a momento of the Danza Rompen el Ilo in Sowing parts Formando Este Los Brazos I Piernas FC. In El Transcurso de la Danza El Boton Resbala a Lo Largo de la Aguja Esto Cuyas Flexibilidades ya tuerce i los ilos (extremidades) Toman la form of las alas fig d formando una series of mosquitos that Motivan una musica apropiada i of gran valor comico comico comico comico comico comico comico , a mosquito is pone al vorde of una taza de CAFE Cuyo Liquido Adquerre Movimiento Rotatorio con la Cucharlala. Gran Plano del Cafe Redondo I of the Cabeza del Mosquito that hacen a disco of Fonografo i Diafragma, be ben mano that Cambia la Aguja al Mostico. MISMA IDEA CON A LAGO AL BORDE DEL CUAL UNA INFINIDAD DE MOSQUITOS HACEN LAS BECES DE? From a Gigantesco disco, una Rama by Arbol Puede Hacer Para El Disco, o Sea el Lago that a character Habra Imprimido El Movimiento Giratorio con una patada.

Translation :

An ecstatic character looks at a naked odalisque, which arrives with a ventent -yawning quieted, it extends to the ground in a straight line with respect to the fig. A, immediately falls asleep into the position of Figure B. Figure B by the special conjunction of shadows, lines and reflections on the ground simultaneously represents 3 distinct images. The sleeping woman we have just mentioned, a horse and a lion. These 3 coincidences allow the appearance of the two animals only at the moment when they acquire the movement, that is to say, in Figure B is posed in the C, when the lion lifts the tail; He opens his mouth to roar, from Figure C to D, where the lion can return, etc.

Figure D, after having moved in all directions, is gradually reconstituted until coinciding again with Figure B, Figure B is placed on the E, from the E to the F, or the breast of the horse which lifts the head, This can disappear very small on the horizon. The main character of the beginning is always as amazed at the transformation of the odalisque into a lion who does not realize the danger that it represents and which does not flee until the sun roars like that in the face, When the horse begins to bite the character appears again and we see it in the foreground motioned and impressed.

pimples of the threads; Sewing needles, on a table or an open necessary.

Figure A. To the sound of appropriate music form small characters made up by the needle (body) and the button (head). These characters make belly dance thanks to flexibility with which the needles have been endowed. A wire touches the FB needles doubly at a time of dance, they break the thread in equal parts forming the arms and legs FC. During the dance, the button slides along the needle whose flexibility twists and the ends take the shape of the wings. Fig d forming a series of mosquitoes that justify appropriate and very comical music, a mosquito is at the front of a cup of coffee whose liquid acquires a rotation movement with the spoon. Close -up on the roundness of the coffee and the head of the mosquito which form a phonograph disc and a diaphragm, a hand thus changes the needle into mosquitoes. The same idea with a lake at the edge of which an infinity of mosquitoes act? From a gigantic nightclub, a tree branch can have the disc stop or that it is the lake, a character of which prints with a blow the roundabout.

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Provenance: collection of Captain Peter Moore (stamp on the back)

Sleeping, horse, invisible lion . Oil on canvas. 50.20 x 65.20 cm. Center Pompidou, inv. AM-1993-26.