Engraving «The Oak and the Reed» (Le Chene et le Roseau). Drypoint., Salvador Dalí – buy, price on request | Don Foundation

Engraving «The Oak and the Reed» (Le Chene et le Roseau). Drypoint.

Technique: Arches paper.
Size: 79,5 × 58 см.
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).