Le Mythe tragique de l’Angélus de Millet
Paris, Pauvert, (October 15) 1963.
1 vol. (215 x 275 mm) of 166 p. Publisher's boards, 33 plates out of text including 3 in color, 2 illustrations in the text by Dalí, one of them after Millet.
First edition.
Signed presentation inscription: “Monsieur Max-Pol Fouchet, Dali, 1963.”
Signed presentation inscription: “Monsieur Max-Pol Fouchet, Dali, 1963.”
Analyzing Jean-François Millet’s painting through a series of personal, irrational and thoroughly obsessive associations, Salvador Dalí arrived at interpretations worth summarizing here: the pitchfork planted in the ground by the peasant signifies sexual penetration, but also a dissecting scalpel; the hat held against him “tries to hide his state of erection,” while the handles of the wheelbarrow behind the woman answer the prayer of a praying mantis. This “paranoiac-critical” interpretation, in the author’s own term, was set down in a text written in 1938, which Dalí left aside for many years before publishing it with Jean-Jacques Pauvert in 1963.
Inscribed copies are uncommon. Fine condition.
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