Bracelli Lamp - Sculpture by Salvador Dali
Bracelli Lamp - Sculpture by Salvador Dali
Bracelli Lamp - Sculpture by Salvador Dali
Bracelli Lamp - Sculpture by Salvador Dali
Bracelli Lamp - Sculpture by Salvador Dali
Bracelli Lamp - Sculpture by Salvador Dali
Bracelli Lamp - Sculpture by Salvador Dali
Bracelli Lamp - Sculpture by Salvador Dali

Bracelli Lamp - Sculpture 1937

Salvador Dali

Gold LeafGoldPanel
180 ⨯ 64 ⨯ 37 cm
ConditionExcellent
€ 6.650

TERTIUS GALLERY

  • About the artwork
    A standing lamp which corresponds to the work of Jean Michel Frank, adopted by Dalí for his house at Port Lligat. The zig-zag pyramidal pedestal is covered in gold leaf due to it’s being a noble metal and one of Dalí’s obsessions. The Muleta also is an addition to his obsessions.
    Panel structure covered with simil fine gold leaf.
    Lamp shade in ivory cotton and rayon.

    In the Paris of the 1930s, Salvador Dalí (1904/1989) surrounded himself with a circle of friends working in the application of art to a number of varied disciplines, beyond the study of purely pictorial art. One of these, Jean-Michel Frank, an acclaimed furniture designer and decorator in Paris at that time, got on extremely well with Dalí, and together they developed a number of ideas. One example of this is the Bracelli lamp, a classic design in Jean-Michel’s manner of designing and working that Dalí adopted for his home in Portlligat. Among Dalí’s projects, which add to his CV as a designer, are the garden furniture for his home in Portlligat, the complete architecture of the Night Club (in the shape of a hedgehog) for the Hotel Presidente in Acapulco (1957) and a project for a bar in California in the 1940s. His creations were not limited to traditional furniture elements, but included taps, handles, knobs, prints and objects of indeterminate use. In 1933, Dalí even registered the patent for the design of a bench as an outdoor seat. In the 1990s, a team of experts led by Oscar Tusquets set out to bring to life the furniture that Dalí had sketched for Jean-Michel Frank, including the Leda chair and low table taken from the 1935 painting “Femme à latête rose” (1935). The sculptor Joaquim Camps was responsible for breathing life into them and BD Barcelona Design took charge of their worldwide exclusive production and marketing.
  • About the artist

    Salvador Dalí was born as Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech, on May 11, 1904. The father of the renowned Spanish artist, who was a middleclass lawyer, had a strict disciplinary approach to raising children. Dalí’s mother on the other hand was a strong encouraging factor in the development of his art and his eccentric personality. Salvador was an intelligent child, but experienced many outbursts of anger. Because of the punishments received by his father because of this, the relationship between the two deteriorated. Salvador was sent to drawing school at the Colegio de Hermanos Maristas and the Instituto in Figueres, Spain, in 1916, although he never took his education fully serious.

    When Salvador was 16 his mother died, leaving the teenager devastated. In 1922 Dalí enrolled at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid, where he was influenced by Metaphysics and Cubism. Only one year later Dalí was suspended for starting a riot over the academy’s choice of a professorship. He returned in 1926, but he was permanently expelled because of his declaration that no member of the faculty would be competent enough to examine his work. Between 1926 and 1929 Dalí could often be found in Paris, where he met influential painters such as Picasso and Magritte, who introduced Dalí to surrealism. Nowadays we associate his paintings with the main themes as man’s universe and sensations, sexual symbolism and ideographic imagery.

    By 1930, Dalí had become an important figure of the Surrealist movement and by the mid-30’s his colourful personality became notorious as well. From 1960 Dalí even dedicated his time to creating the Teatro-Museo Dalí, which officially opened in 1974 and houses a broad range of work by Dalí. In 1980 Dalí retired from painting due to a motor disorder. This sent him into depression which was enforced 4 years later after he suffered severe burn injuries because of a fire. He was confined to a wheelchair. In 1989 Dalí died of heart failure.

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