Hi everyone in r/SalvadorDali,

My name is Jonathan and I'm the assistant gallery director for Choice Contemporary in LA. We recently acquired several works by Dali that I think everyone here would get a kick out of viewing. I've placed a few images of what we have and the link is below to view the complete catalogue. If you'd like more info about any of the pieces or would like to view them in person please feel free to reach out to me here or at my email Jonathan@choicecontemporary.com, thank you.

Salvador Dali Catalogue: https://privateviews.artlogic.net/2/87f1daba24c712f1c7d419/

All the best,

Jonathan

Alguém confiável de salvador pra f1?

Sometimes you just have one of those questions that can't get out of your brain. In this case, I can't stop thinking about whether or not Salvador Dali got free Chupa Chups for life?

He was a friend of the founder, designed the logo and was Salvador Dali. If he wanted free Chupa Chups I'm sure he'd get free Chupa Chups. Although I can not yet prove this.

What do you guys think?

Good Morning (from Los Angeles),

I have an artist’s proof #75 of 75 of Time and Immortality and wanted to feel out what this might catch at an auction/market, if even accepted. It’s in the original frame with COA, however I’ve seen the values of this piece in the series fluctuate greatly and want to make a planned approach. As of now, I can’t find any comps, much less any of the artist’s proofs to gage.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Hello, I'm hoping someone can answer this. I saw this lithography today from the marquis de sade series titled "damis and durval (prison)" and I cannot, for the life of me, understand the title. Can someone shed some light?

I know that’s normally where the series number or Artist Proof mark goes but I can’t think of anything that this could stand for. Thanks in advance for your help!

Is it true that he kicked a disabled person??? why the hell did he do that? Was he just an asshole??? Is it true that he was also a cuck? He liked to watch his wife have sex with other men??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3FAy0teMNo

Interviewer: You've done some very mysterious things, and I don't know if you like being asked what they mean, but there was an incident once where you appeared for a lecture in Paris and you arrived in a Rolls Royce full of cauliflower.

Dalí: Cauliflower represents the exact morphological problem of the horn of a rhinoceros. If you look carefully, a cauliflower has the same pattern as a sunflower. The pattern is crossing logarithmic spirals. And you know, Leonardo Davinci discovered this mathematical phenomenon in the sunflower, and later Dalí discovered a mathematical problem a thousand times more powerful, in the cauliflower. And this is the reason why I arrived that way in Sorbonne because my speech is about cauliflower, and the horn of a rhino because they have the same mathematical pattern.

Interviewer: Am I alone in finding you somewhat difficult to follow? Do people often misunderstand you?

Dalí: That is absolutely normal because I have worked in surrealism for 14 years and today, I don't understand anything about my work.

Interviewer: Nobody understands your work?

Dali: And if I don't understand it myself, others understand less.

Interviewer: Is it my imagination or are you speaking a mixture of languages?

Dalí: It's the same language all the time. English with a bit of a Catalan accent. Costa Brava accent.

Lilian Gish: Do you have a message from the beginning of your work to give to people that perhaps we do not understand?

Dalí: I don't have any message. I am against any type of message.

Interviewer: Your paintings have a very dreamlike quality; I find them fascinating.

Dalí: It never comes from dreams; they are hypnagogic images.

Interviewer: Hypnagogic images, what is that?

10 or 15 minutes before you fall asleep, a type of genius appears, Dalí thinks, some type of very vivid, irrational, Lilliputian, (very small) images, and I capture these images and paint them with a remarkable photographic style, with no message or explanation.

Sometimes, after 20 years, some scientists tell you, this perhaps means this or that, but each of these tiny images remain a complete mystery.

Hi there,
Im interested in getting my hands on some nice prints from Salvador Dali. Mostly through auctions like Catawiki or others. Im only interested in hand signed prints. But Dali signed 40+k of paper, so they are used a lot for not original printings, long after Dalis death and even in his time.

How do you guys know its a piece of art the artist has signed so its real?
Thnx in advance!

I went to Luna Luna Forgotten Fantasy in downtown LA and saw a ton of awesome Dali art (and Basqiat, Keith Haring, etc). The exhibit is controversial so I wanted to ask what y’all think?

The exhibit is an amusement park but you cannot play on the art pieces. So we got this scavenger hunt to play while there. Definitely made the exhibit more fun. https://tourdeforcemerch.etsy.com/listing/1675602720 Did anyone else do this yet?

What does advance retail trade edition mean exactly? I've found various and conflicting definitions. And does it make a magazine more rare/valuable? I don't own it. Just curious. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

Many years ago I came across an illustration by Dalí (not a painting I believe) that shows a reaper-like figure with a lantern with butterflies flying out of it.

I absolutely loved it, and thought I had it saved but I did not... and cannot find it foe the life of me.

Could anyone help out?

Thanks in advance!

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Dear Dalínians!

Salvador once imagined and wrote down some kind of performance (I don't know what occasion it was thought to be for) in which, among other things, if I remember correctly, bishops were supposed to be shot out of cannons. Does anyone here know what I'm talking about?

Making a smaller clay of my first sculpture I ever did. I’m going to put the continents on the smaller one.