TECHNICAL INFORMATION
TECHNIQUE
Bronze, Lost Wax Process
HEIGHT
60 cm
EDITION
350 + 35 EA
DATE OF EDITION
Conceived in 1954
First cast in 1984
PATINA
Noir
REFERENCE
R. & N. Descharnes Salvador Dali Sculptures & Objects. Eccart. Ref. 643, page 250.
Description
The Surrealist Piano is one of Dalí’s major iconoclastic symbols. The artist has chosen to transform the banal wooden legs of a piano, replacing them with dancing female legs, thus creating an animate, joyous instrument that can dance as well as play. Dalí often blurred the lines between the real and surreal worlds, taking an inert and lifeless object, and, with a wave of his magic surrealist wand, created an entirely new fantasmagorical happening.