Description: Salvador Dali Pencil Signed Limited Edition Lithograph 'Family of Marsupial Centaurs' #72/300Family of Marsupial Centaurs is a color lithograph. The image size is 19.25x22.5 inches plus margins Boldly signed by Dali in pencil lower right Numbered '72/300' in pencil lower left Blindstamp of Dali's signature and publisher's logo lower left Frame size is 27x31 inches Undated but believed to be from the 70s With a late 20th century New York City framer's label. Unexamined out of the frame, it appears to be in excellent condition. This lithograph is based on a painting of the same title painted in 1940 when Dali was living in America. Dali believed that the painting marked his return to a 'classical' style, with a with a more precise technique and greater balance. The figures, particularly the horses, are rendered in the style of the old masters, who Dali had studied and admired. He attributed the painting to Dr. Otto Rank, a psychoanalyst who theorized that neurosis could be traced back to birth trauma. Dali claimed he had pre-birth memories and recalled his birth as traumatic. Always wanting to return to the womb, there are photos of Dali curled up in a fetal position inside an egg. Female centaurs, mythical half human-half horse creatures from Greek mythology, have openings in their stomach from which human babies emerge. In "The Secret Life," Dalí wrote that he envied marsupials because "the children can come out of, and go back into, the maternal uterine paradise."
Price: 13700 USD
Location: Perrysburg, Ohio
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Production Technique: pencil
Size: Large
Material: Paper
Time Period Produced: 1950-1959
Framing: Matted & Framed
Artist: Salvador Dali
Style: Abstract
Signed: Yes
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Theme: Art
Type: drawing
