Salvador DALI (after) - Lot 228

Salvador DALI (after) Chair de poule rhinocérontique or cosmic rhinoceros, bronze proof with green and gold patina numbered out of 350, foundry stamp AIRAINDOR 35.9x9x16.2cm Bronze of a later multiple edition, while the original copy was printed in 1956 at 8 copies plus 4 artist's proofs. Here, Dali explores the theme of frisson: the granulations on the skin of an Asian rhinoceros give rise to such titles of paintings, sculptures and drawings as Chair de poule inaugurale, Chair de poule rhinocerontique, Rhinocéros habillé en dentelles and Le Rhinocéros - hommage à Albrecht Dürer. Dalí proposed to complete The Rhinoceros Dressed in Lace with giraffe legs, like the elephants in his painting The Temptation of Saint Anthony, and to add a pyramid of sea urchins on his back for the film. Rhinocerotic Goose Flesh was born. Dalí confided to Alain Bosquet his dream of seeing this monumental statue erected in Paris: "exactly where, at the Trocadero, a bronze effigy of a rhinoceros once stood. I want it to be a cosmic rhinoceros." Bibliography: Robert and Nicolas Descharnes, Dali sculptures and objects, Eccart 2003, p.71