SALVADOR DALI FOR DAUM. "Venus with Drawers" A Pale Blue Pâte-de-Cristal and Silver Sculpture, no. 3097. From a sold-out lim...

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SALVADOR DALI FOR DAUM
"Venus with Drawers" A Pale Blue Pâte-de-Cristal and Silver Sculpture, no. 3097
From a sold-out limited edition of 850
17 inches (43.2 cm) high

This Venus sculpture dates from 1936 when Dali developed the concept of 'Paranoiac-critical activity' defined by Paul Eluard. His neoclassical, surrealist figures become narcissistic, hysterical,
oneiric, and spectral. In this one, the drawers are a kind of metaphor of psychoanalysis. According to Salvador Dali: "All the drawers had to be put in a plump body that had not yet experienced the Christian invention of a guilty conscience. This sculpture might cure us of psychoanalysis".

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