VENUS AUX TIROIRS
BY SALVADOR DALI
ART EDITION: 850 PIECES
LAUNCHED IN 1989
H : 43 CM

Painter, sculptor, writer, Salvador Dali is one of the greatest masters of surrealism. His association with Daum began in 1968, with the creation of a sculpture in păte de verre entitled “Fleur du Mal”, the first in a series of works.
These pieces were quickly acquired by collectors and are now estimated at ten times their original value.

Dali was born in Figueras, Spain in 1904. He became proficient in many styles of art while studying in Madrid and Barcelona. By the late 1920s he had developed his own style of painting for which he became famous. Dali was a member of a group of artists and writers known as the Paris Surrealists. The
group studied the effects of the subconscious mind over logic. This topic had became an interest for Dali after he discovered Sigmund Freud's writing on subconscious imagery. When painting, Dali would put himself into an hallucinatory state to bring about images from his subconscious mind. He often painted common place objects and portrayed them in a changed or deformed way. Dali died January 23, 1989 in Figueres from heart failure. Which brought to the end the life of a most incredible artist and an extraordinary man. There may be much controversy surrounding Dali and his works these days but
what can never be taken away from him was his extraordinary way in which he viewed the world and thanks to his art we get to see a bit of what was inside of Salvador Dali’s mind and just maybe our own

This “Venus Aux Tiroirs” is a sculpture dating from 1936 when Dali developed the concept of “Paranoiac-critical activity” as defined by Paul Eluard. The Venus are typical of Dali’s research. Their classical figures are reworked by the artist and become narcissistic, hysterical, oneiric and spectral… In this one, the
drawera are a kind of metaphor of psychoanalysis. This is how Dali defines this venus: “ All the drawers had not yet experienced the Christian invention of a guilty conscience. This sculpture might cure us of psycho-analysis,” he said