Water-lily (Luna geminata)

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Artist Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989)

Title Water-lily (Luna geminata) (Lune (Moon))

Series FlorDali I (Flora Dalinae)

Date 1968

Medium Color etching, drypoint, and and pochoir (stencil) on paper

Dimensions Image: 23 × 15 1/8 in. (58.4 × 38.4 cm)
Plate: 23 × 15 1/8 in. (58.4 × 38.4 cm)
Sheet: 29 7/8 × 22 1/2 in. (75.9 × 57.2 cm)
Framed: 35 3/4 × 27 5/16 × 1 3/8 in. (90.8 × 69.4 × 3.5 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Francine and Roger Hurwitz, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 2012.12

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About this Work

The Surrealist artist Salvador Dali included playful personifications of the sun and the cycles of the moon in one of ten prints that he did related to flowers. For the images upon which the prints were based, he painted over eighteenth- or nineteenth-century botanical prints with symbolism related to the plants. Depending on the variety, water lilies open and close their flowers each day, either during the daylight hours or at night. Dali also included a crescent moon-headed skeleton holding a cartouche with his name, as well as favorite personal motifs like the ant and a horse and rider. Another similar print in the series focuses more on the solar imagery.

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Printer Atelier Rigal (intaglio) and Atleliers d'Art l'Ibis (pochoir)
Publisher Werbungs- und Commerz Union Anstalt
Series Title FlorDali I (Flora Dalinae)

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