Dali

[jdandy]

Esteban.......You both make a beautiful couple. It is clear as a bell you were meant to be together. Thanks for the photo of you together. Life is good!

[JemHadar]

Originally Posted by jdandy

Esteban.......You both make a beautiful couple. It is clear as a bell you were meant to be together. Thanks for the photo of you together. Life is good!

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Beautiful, congratulations, my wife Lizz ( biiiiiig Dali fan ) and I are very happy for the both of you...enjoy

BTW we are going to see Opeth live next tuesday...yippie...life is indeed good.

[GaryProtein]

Originally Posted by bakerman

Congrats on acquiring a piece of Dali's work. While his later works aren't as highly regarded as his early pieces, I think they are just as satisfying. He seemed to steer away from obvious surrealist themes and worked more in abstraction. Like a fine piece of audio equipment, there's nothing like hanging a beautiful piece of artwork up.

I've always liked this photo...

That photo is by Philippe Halsman. He photographed more important people of the twentieth century than just about anybody.

He was able to do more with know-how and an ordinary enlarger and paper than most photoshop users can do with high powered computers.

[esteban]

Originally Posted by Jem666

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Beautiful, congratulations, my wife Lizz ( biiiiiig Dali fan ) and I are very happy for the both of you...enjoy

BTW we are going to see Opeth live next tuesday...yippie...life is indeed good.

Thank you! Very glad to hear married life is treating you both great. Have fun at the Opeth show and !

[esteban]

Originally Posted by bakerman

I'm actually very drawn to his last painting, "The Swallow's Tail"

Doug, I was actually admiring this piece the other day on the Taschen book (the one that weights a ton!). As minimalist as it is cryptic and fascinating. It's incredible how, as you said in an earlier post, he was able to go from one extreme to the other and yet retain that special signature that made him Dalí. All the way til the end.

[LordoftheRingsEE]

-- Esteban, thank you for sharing that beautiful picture of your wife and yourself. You both are beautiful looking people, and an aura of joy and serenity is present in both of you. That beauty I can feel it, and it makes me happy.
I wish you the very best in your life; it's real nice to have you here among us.

[Msegal]

Originally Posted by bakerman

btw...the Aliyah series is so powerful, as it should be given the subject matter. Many of the prints are quality pieces. I particularly like "The Land of Milk and Honey".

Bakerman, thanks for the wonderful Dali.
I too am drawn to the Aliyah series.
I was fortunate enough to find the entire suite including the large blue book and papers with David Ben-Gurion's signature on a recent trip to New York.
I probable paid too much for it but I believe the E.A set should be kept together and not broken up.

Best Regards.

Mike S.

[esteban]

We recently acquired a Dalí copper-plate etching, originally commissioned by surrealist/collector/photographer and later famous publisher, Pierre Argillet.

This particular piece, entitled "Kneeling Knight" and part of a tirage of 150, was created in 1968 and is supposedly hand-embellished by Dalí himself. It corresponds to the "Faust" series, which illustrates the events of the “Walpurgis Night” brilliantly narrated by Goethe’s in his timeless classic.

Here are a few images of the piece:















The entire Pierre Argillet collection of limited-edition etchings and original watercolors, among other works, started in the 1930's with "The Chants Of Maldoror" and continued well into the 70's. It also encompasses other literary classics such as "Venus In Furs", plus a very famous "Mythology" suite, among other "one-off" etchings. The collection is now curated and sold by Pierre's daughter, Christine, who also tours the world trying to spread the word (and enlarge her pockets, of course) about these wonderful, twisted and sometimes quite sexual works.

I'm happy to share our new Dalí acquisition with all of you.

[bakerman]

Esteban, congrats on the etching! It is a beautiful piece. The frame, the way the print floats within the space and not having the mat cover up the beautiful deckled edge, is all done in a very tasteful way.

I was planning on telling you that our local art museum just finished a show entitled "Real/Surreal". It was organized by the Whitney and our local museum was one of three I believe that was selected to host this show. They had the entire series of Dali's "Twelve Tribes of Israel" on display as well. First of all I have to say that I think Dali's work is much more advanced than his peers. His concepts and execution are so polished, it really is amazing how well he honed his craft. A true master!

The "Twelve Tribes" series is incredible. They appear to be simple black and white prints with hand coloring at first glance, but upon closer examination they are thought provoking, awe inspiring, beautifully whimsical but at the same time very complex pieces. Your new piece reminds me of this series.

Consider me green with envy...

Well done.

[LordoftheRingsEE]

------ Very cool! ..Thanx for all the great pictures' sharing.