Lot 192

Mounted.
Minor spot scratches and marks upon close inspection. Marks to mount.


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It took photographer Philippe Halsman and artist Salvador Dalí 28 tries to achieve the playful weightlessness of Dalí Atomicus. Halsman met Dalí and other artists in the Surrealist circle while he was living in Paris in the 1930s. In the late 1940s, the two men began to collaborate on a variety of photographic projects. Dalí Atomicus, perhaps the most iconic image to emerge from this collaboration, is a portrait of the artist inspired by his painting, Leda Atomica (1949), which appears in the composition's right-hand corner—hanging suspended above the ground like the easel, chair, stepstool, cats, water, and Dalí himself.

© Philippe Halsman/SAIF. Copyright Agency, 2019