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SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueres, Girona, 1904 - 1989). "Nu féminin", 1976. Charcoal and lead on paper. Signed in the lower right corner. With stamp of the Perrot-Moure Collection. Enclosed certificate issued by Nicolas R. and Olivier M. Descharnes. Measurements: 59.3 x 87.8 cm. Every Tuesday of the summer months of 1976, Dalí gave a drawing course in Figueras. In the female nude that we show, the experts recognize corrections and finishes of his authorship on a previous drawing of one of his students. A young woman lying down covers her pubis with her left hand, partially mimicking the archetypal gesture of the Vanus pudica. However, she does not hide her naked torso, and her long legs do not seek to be proportional to the rest of the body. On the contrary, they present an unreal and deliberate length, of a mannerist nature. Under Dalí's hand, bodies become elastic and metamorphic, for even in apparently academic studies they acquire a subtly dreamlike delicacy. During his early years, Dalí discovered contemporary painting during a family visit to Cadaqués, where he met the family of Ramon Pichot, an artist who traveled regularly to Paris. Following Pichot's advice, Dalí began to study painting with Juan Núñez. In 1922, Dalí stayed at the famous Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid to begin studying Fine Arts at the San Fernando Academy. However, before his final exams in 1926, he was expelled for claiming that there was no one there fit to examine him. That same year Dalí traveled to Paris for the first time. There he met Picasso, and established some formal characteristics that would become distinctive of all his work from then on. His language absorbed the influences of many artistic styles, from classical academicism to the most groundbreaking avant-garde. At that time, the painter grew an eye-catching moustache imitating Velázquez's, which would become his personal trademark for the rest of his life. In 1929, Dalí collaborated with Luis Buñuel in the making of "An Andalusian Dog", in which scenes from the surrealist imaginary were shown. In August of that same year he met his muse and future wife Gala. During this period, Dalí held regular exhibitions in both Barcelona and Paris, and joined the surrealist group based in the Parisian neighborhood of Montparnasse. His work greatly influenced the direction of surrealism for the next two years, and he was hailed as the creator of the paranoiac-critical method, which was said to help access the subconscious by releasing creative artistic energies. The painter landed in America in 1934, thanks to art dealer Julian Levy. As a result of his first individual exhibition in New York, his international projection was definitively consolidated, and since then he has been showing his work and giving lectures all over the world. Most of his production is gathered in the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueras, followed by the collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg (Florida), the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Salvador Dalí Gallery in Pacific Palisades (California), the Espace Dalí in Montmartre (Paris) or the Dalí Universe in London.

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SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueres, Girona, 1904 - 1989). "Nu féminin", 1976. Charcoal and lead on paper. Signed in the lower right corner. With stamp of the Perrot-Moure Collection. Enclosed certificate issued by Nicolas R. and Olivier M. Descharnes. Measurements: 59.3 x 87.8 cm. Every Tuesday of the summer months of 1976, Dalí gave a drawing course in Figueras. In the female nude that we show, the experts recognize corrections and finishes of his authorship on a previous drawing of one of his students. A young woman lying down covers her pubis with her left hand, partially mimicking the archetypal gesture of the Vanus pudica. However, she does not hide her naked torso, and her long legs do not seek to be proportional to the rest of the body. On the contrary, they present an unreal and deliberate length, of a mannerist nature. Under Dalí's hand, bodies become elastic and metamorphic, for even in apparently academic studies they acquire a subtly dreamlike delicacy. During his early years, Dalí discovered contemporary painting during a family visit to Cadaqués, where he met the family of Ramon Pichot, an artist who traveled regularly to Paris. Following Pichot's advice, Dalí began to study painting with Juan Núñez. In 1922, Dalí stayed at the famous Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid to begin studying Fine Arts at the San Fernando Academy. However, before his final exams in 1926, he was expelled for claiming that there was no one there fit to examine him. That same year Dalí traveled to Paris for the first time. There he met Picasso, and established some formal characteristics that would become distinctive of all his work from then on. His language absorbed the influences of many artistic styles, from classical academicism to the most groundbreaking avant-garde. At that time, the painter grew an eye-catching moustache imitating Velázquez's, which would become his personal trademark for the rest of his life. In 1929, Dalí collaborated with Luis Buñuel in the making of "An Andalusian Dog", in which scenes from the surrealist imaginary were shown. In August of that same year he met his muse and future wife Gala. During this period, Dalí held regular exhibitions in both Barcelona and Paris, and joined the surrealist group based in the Parisian neighborhood of Montparnasse. His work greatly influenced the direction of surrealism for the next two years, and he was hailed as the creator of the paranoiac-critical method, which was said to help access the subconscious by releasing creative artistic energies. The painter landed in America in 1934, thanks to art dealer Julian Levy. As a result of his first individual exhibition in New York, his international projection was definitively consolidated, and since then he has been showing his work and giving lectures all over the world. Most of his production is gathered in the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueras, followed by the collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg (Florida), the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Salvador Dalí Gallery in Pacific Palisades (California), the Espace Dalí in Montmartre (Paris) or the Dalí Universe in London.

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