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拍品专文
Robert and Nicolas Descharnes have confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Horse and Rider was created during the last years of Dalí's formal involvement with the Surrealist movement. Displaying the artist's extraordinary talents as a draughtsman, the present work intricately features the landscape near Dali's home in Port Lligat in Northern Spain which dominate much of the artist's imagery in the mid-1930s. Executed in 1935 during an ominous period of political uncertainty in Europe, and especially in Spain, the horse and rider triumphantly charge ahead, heroically dominating the landscape.
The theme of the horse and rider was prevalent in the work of Dalí during the 1930s. In the present work one can draw parallels to the story of Don Quixote in which the artist was particularly interested. With a scroll in his raised hand the rider charges forward, determined to deliver a message possibly to the city seen in the distance.Other parallels can be drawn between the present work and the Le chevalier de la mort (The Knight (or Horseman) of Death), a theme displayed in a number of oil paintings from the period, including the 1934 painting of the subject sold at Christie's, London, 23 June 2010, lot 59 (sold for 1,609,250 $2,378,260) and the haunting oil from 1935, the same year as the present work, in the private collection of François Petit in Paris. The subject was and likewise explored through intricate drawings found in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida. The theme of Le chevalier de la mort in Dalí's art is highly indicative of the strangely unnerving period in which they were made. It is an outstanding series of paintings in which strange shroud-covered specters, skulls and other clear images of death, petrification, decay and dissolution seem to perpetually permeate Dali's dreamscapes and newly-developed paranoiac-critical landscapes. Dalí's subject of Le chevalier de la mort is founded loosely on the specific Christian theme of the journey of the Knight of Death--one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--is one that consistently appears in the artist's work between 1933 and 1936.
Horse and Rider was acquired by Mollie Parnis Livingston in 1951, and remained in her collection until her death in 1992. Parnis Livingston became one of the foremost American fashion designers after starting her clothing line with her husband Leon Livingston in the years just prior to World War II. She carved a niche as a designer of conservative and classic women's wear and her designs were favored by first ladies of the United States such as Mamie Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon and Rosalyn Carter.
Horse and Rider was created during the last years of Dalí's formal involvement with the Surrealist movement. Displaying the artist's extraordinary talents as a draughtsman, the present work intricately features the landscape near Dali's home in Port Lligat in Northern Spain which dominate much of the artist's imagery in the mid-1930s. Executed in 1935 during an ominous period of political uncertainty in Europe, and especially in Spain, the horse and rider triumphantly charge ahead, heroically dominating the landscape.
The theme of the horse and rider was prevalent in the work of Dalí during the 1930s. In the present work one can draw parallels to the story of Don Quixote in which the artist was particularly interested. With a scroll in his raised hand the rider charges forward, determined to deliver a message possibly to the city seen in the distance.Other parallels can be drawn between the present work and the Le chevalier de la mort (The Knight (or Horseman) of Death), a theme displayed in a number of oil paintings from the period, including the 1934 painting of the subject sold at Christie's, London, 23 June 2010, lot 59 (sold for 1,609,250 $2,378,260) and the haunting oil from 1935, the same year as the present work, in the private collection of François Petit in Paris. The subject was and likewise explored through intricate drawings found in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida. The theme of Le chevalier de la mort in Dalí's art is highly indicative of the strangely unnerving period in which they were made. It is an outstanding series of paintings in which strange shroud-covered specters, skulls and other clear images of death, petrification, decay and dissolution seem to perpetually permeate Dali's dreamscapes and newly-developed paranoiac-critical landscapes. Dalí's subject of Le chevalier de la mort is founded loosely on the specific Christian theme of the journey of the Knight of Death--one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--is one that consistently appears in the artist's work between 1933 and 1936.
Horse and Rider was acquired by Mollie Parnis Livingston in 1951, and remained in her collection until her death in 1992. Parnis Livingston became one of the foremost American fashion designers after starting her clothing line with her husband Leon Livingston in the years just prior to World War II. She carved a niche as a designer of conservative and classic women's wear and her designs were favored by first ladies of the United States such as Mamie Eisenhower, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon and Rosalyn Carter.