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Robert Descharnes (1926-2014), "Salvador Dali, Le hasard objectif", 22 October 1959. Photograph. Silver print, 1996, signed and numbered 6/50. Image : 30 x 20 cm ; sheet : 40,5 x 30,5 cm. Accompanied by the certificate of authenticity. Descharnes & Descharnes sarl. "Objective chance" is a concept stated by André Breton, founder of surrealism. On 22 October 1959, a rock was brought to Dalí. The next day, it was a dolphin of similar shape and size: a disturbing coincidence! He called Robert Descharnes and a photo session took place the same day. Dalí took hold of the two forms, one inert, hard, mineral and the other soft, biological: the eternal and the ephemeral. "The hard and the soft must be equivalent in the classical work. If they are moreover parallel, they reach the courtly perfection of Palladian structures." Salvador Dalí, Robert Descharnes, Dalí de Gala, Edita, Lausanne 1962, p.38.
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Robert Descharnes (1926-2014), "Salvador Dali, Le hasard objectif", 22 October 1959. Photograph. Silver print, 1996, signed and numbered 6/50. Image : 30 x 20 cm ; sheet : 40,5 x 30,5 cm. Accompanied by the certificate of authenticity. Descharnes & Descharnes sarl. "Objective chance" is a concept stated by André Breton, founder of surrealism. On 22 October 1959, a rock was brought to Dalí. The next day, it was a dolphin of similar shape and size: a disturbing coincidence! He called Robert Descharnes and a photo session took place the same day. Dalí took hold of the two forms, one inert, hard, mineral and the other soft, biological: the eternal and the ephemeral. "The hard and the soft must be equivalent in the classical work. If they are moreover parallel, they reach the courtly perfection of Palladian structures." Salvador Dalí, Robert Descharnes, Dalí de Gala, Edita, Lausanne 1962, p.38.
