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Engraving “The Oak and the Reed” (Le Chene et le Roseau). Drypoint.

Series:La Fontaine's Bestiary (Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine dalinise).

Year:1976

2 100 $

Technique: Arches paper.
Size: 79.5 × 58 cm.
Expertise: Edition of 120. Copy 106/120. Edition number in the lower left corner. Author's signature in the lower right corner..

A sheet from the suite "Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine dalinisé" – twelve drypoints in which Dalí reinterpreted Jean de La Fontaine's fables in a Surrealist vein (published by Les Maîtres Contemporains, Paris). The subject follows the fable "The Oak and the Reed": the mighty oak broken by the storm and the pliant reed that survives by bending before the wind. Executed in drypoint with hand-colouring en pochoir (stencil).

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Engraving “The Oak and the Reed” (Le Chene et le Roseau). Drypoint – Salvador Dalí, 1976

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