Salvador Dalí - The Savage Tristan: Original color lithograph - 1981

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Salvador Dalí - The Savage Tristan: Original color lithograph - 1981

Name: Salvador Dalí - The Savage Tristan: Original color lithograph - 1981
Brand: Dalí, Salvador
Price: 3250.0 EUR
Availability: InStock

This striking color lithograph by Salvador Dalí from 1981 unfolds a dramatic visual world of great emotional intensity. The motif combines myth, theater, and surreal architecture into a powerful vision poised between dream and stage. As a hand-signed print on Japanese paper, the work possesses a high degree of artistic presence and significant collector value.

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Salvador Dali

Technology & Printing Processes

Original color lithograph - lithograph on Japanese paper

Details

Year:1981

Size in cm:44.5 x 59 image
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Condition:Excellent !

Special features

Edition:300 copies - Hand-numbered: 207 of 300 bottom left

Signature:Hand signature "Dalí", bottom right

Note:The image shows the backdrop for the ballet "Mad Tristan - Act II," from 1944. The ballet, based on the timeless myth of love unto death, was performed by Ballet International with musical themes from "Tristan und Isolde." Choreography by Leonide Massine. Set design and costumes by Salvador Dalí.

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Image description

Against a deep blue, almost nocturnal horizon, a rugged landscape of rocks, walls, and staircases rises. From the architecture emerges the head of a horse, monumental yet vulnerable, its gaze lowered as if pausing. Staircases lead nowhere, walls crack open, fragments of buildings seem to dissolve. Clouds and wind-like shapes drift across the sky, while the sea in the background appears calm and endless. The palette of blues, ochres, and grays creates a captivating balance between movement and stillness, between stage and dreamscape.

Artistic context

The sheet is based on a stage design that Dalí created in 1944 for the balletMad TristanCreated and choreographed by Léonide Massine, the work draws on the archaic myth of Tristan and Isolde, a tale of love, fate, and death, which Dalí translated into a surreal visual architecture. In the later graphic realization of 1981, this visual idea condenses into an independent composition in which theater, painting, and dream logic merge. The color lithograph on Japanese paper allows for a subtle gradation of color and line and underscores the scenic nature of the work. The limited edition of 300 copies and the artist's own signature make this print a significant example of Dalí's late graphic work.

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) is considered one of the most famous, flamboyant, and consistent representatives of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Catalonia, he displayed exceptional drawing talent from an early age and studied at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Even at a young age, he combined technical virtuosity with a pronounced penchant for provocation, staging, and self-stylization—qualities that made him world-famous not only as an artist but also as a public figure.

In the 1920s, Dalí joined the Surrealist movement around André Breton in Paris. His work draws on psychoanalytic theories, particularly the writings of Sigmund Freud, as well as on personal obsessions, anxieties, and desires. Recurring themes include time and transience, sexuality, death, power, religion, and identity. Despite the often irrational subject matter, Dalí's works are characterized by an exceptionally precise, almost photorealistic painting style—a deliberate contrast between form and content.

Gala, his muse, wife, and manager, played a central role in Dalí's life and art, appearing in numerous works as an ideal figure, projection, and symbol. After World War II, Dalí increasingly turned to religious, scientific, and mythological themes, integrating influences from physics, atomic theory, and Renaissance art into his work.

Besides paintings, Dalí created an extensive body of graphic work, sculptures, stage designs, films, jewelry designs, and literary texts. His graphic works made his visual world accessible to a wider international audience and contributed significantly to his global fame.

Salvador Dalí understood art as a radical expression of inner realities – as a play between control and madness, precision and dream. His work remains iconic, instantly recognizable, and of unbroken fascination. As a boundary-crosser between genius, provocateur, and perfect craftsman, Dalí created an oeuvre that profoundly influenced Surrealism and continues to captivate collectors, art lovers, and viewers worldwide.

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