Salvador Dali, Bronze Sculpture, "Snail and the Angel"

Medium: Bronze
Height: 17.32" (44 cm), Length: 24" (61 cm)
Technique: Lost wax process
Patina: Green/gold
Edition size: 350
Year: Conceived in 1977
First Cast: 1984
References: Descharnes, Dali: The Hard and the Soft, Sculptures & Objects. Eccart, 2004. Pg. 241 ref. 621

Certificate of Authenticity is included.

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This sculpture occupies an important place in the Dalínian universe. It is intimately connected with the artist's encounter with Sigmund Freud, who Dalí came to regard as his spiritual father. As part of the early Surrealist movement, Dalí was surrounded by psychoanalytical influences and these ideas were strongly incorporated into his artwork. Dalí was captivated when he saw a snail on a bicycle outside Freud's house, connecting the snail with the image of a human head; the head of Freud. It is well known that one of Dalí's more obsessive fetishes is the snail, because it incorporates the paradox of softness, (the animal), with hardness, (the shell). Paradoxically then, the snail, the universal symbol of the idle passing of time, has been given wings and is riding fluidly moving waves. A winged messenger of the gods, capable of limitless speed, bestows the snail with the gift of motion by touching down on its back for the briefest of moments.