Color lithograph according to Salvador Dali's original 1979 gouache, Privileg cotton paper, dimensions: 37 x 27 cm passe-partout, 50 x 38 cm framed passe-partout, signed on the plate in composition "Dali", on the back proof of the limited edition of 800 copies and the year of publication 1979, limited edition Dalart Gala, original certificate.
Cobea ispart of the FlorDali seriesconsisting of 10 works by Dali (Rose Papillon - Lys musical - Marguerites - Passion flower - Cobea - Begonia - Arbre lunes -Pensée-Dahlia - Arbre soleil).
Salvador Dali, creating a series of works in 1979, used elements of hisearlierworks. Thus "" like Margueritescan beseen on theartist's magnificentworktitledFlordali from 1969.
The lithographswereoriginallyintendedas gifts forguests of an exhibition of Salvador Dali's gouaches at the Hotel Le Meurice inParis.For an unknown reason, they werenotgifted, and for more than half a century they were in the inventory of Hotel Le Meurice inParis.
The exclusive Hotel Le Meurice was a favorite place for great artists andthinkersand was the center of worldexhibitions .In it Pablo Picasso held his wedding reception, and Salvadore Dali spent a montheach year for 30 years in the oldRoyalSuite(comprisingrooms 106 and 108),usedbyKingAlfonso XIII.Others include the Wright brothers, Giorgio de Chirico, Rudyard Kipling, Edmond Rostand, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Paul Morand, Walter Lippmann, Yehudi Menuhin, Seiji Ozawa, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Plácido Domingo.
"Flordali "are fanciful, anthropomorphizedplantscarryinghumorous and erotic content,among other things.Also presentthroughout the seriesare characteristic elements of Salvador Dali's paintings, such as the motif of the eye, the crow's feet andthe figure thatbrings tomind Don Quixote. Dali manages tochange the meaning of thepaintings, theirinterrelationships and essentially createsa newconcept and "way of seeing" in hisown surreal, unique style.
