Salvador Dali Spanish, 1904-1989
Surrealist Piano, 1984
Bronze lost wax process
23.6" x 9.2"x 15"
350+35EA
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Patina: Blue/Gold The Surrealist Piano is one of Dalí's major iconoclastic symbols. The artist has chosen to transform the banal wooden legs of a piano, replacing them with dancing female...
Patina: Blue/Gold
The Surrealist Piano is one of Dalí's major iconoclastic symbols. The artist has chosen to transform the banal wooden legs of a piano, replacing them with dancing female legs, thus creating an animate, joyous instrument that can dance as well as play. Dalí often blurred the lines between the real and surreal worlds, taking an inert and lifeless object, and, with a wave of his magic surrealist wand, created an entirely new fantasmagorical happening.
R. & N. Descharnes Salvador Dali Sculptures & Objects. Eccart. Ref. 643, page 250.
The Surrealist Piano is one of Dalí's major iconoclastic symbols. The artist has chosen to transform the banal wooden legs of a piano, replacing them with dancing female legs, thus creating an animate, joyous instrument that can dance as well as play. Dalí often blurred the lines between the real and surreal worlds, taking an inert and lifeless object, and, with a wave of his magic surrealist wand, created an entirely new fantasmagorical happening.
R. & N. Descharnes Salvador Dali Sculptures & Objects. Eccart. Ref. 643, page 250.