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Engraving “The Deer and His Reflection” (Le Cerf se voyant dans l'eau). Drypoint.

Year:1976

2 100 $

Technique: Arches paper.
Size: 79.5 × 58 cm.
Expertise: Edition of 120. Copy 10/120. 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," a cycle of twelve drypoints after Jean de La Fontaine's fables (published by Les Maîtres Contemporains, Paris). The subject follows the fable "The Stag Seeing Himself in the Water": the stag who admires his antlers and disdains his slender legs, which in the end save him while the antlers become entangled in the branches. Executed in drypoint with hand-colouring en pochoir.

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Engraving “The Deer and His Reflection” (Le Cerf se voyant dans l'eau). Drypoint – Salvador Dalí, 1976

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