Artist: Salvador Dalí

Title: "The Beloved is as Fair as a Company of Horses", from The Song of Songs of Solomon

Size: Image: h: 15.875" w: 9.75", Paper: h: 22.375" w: 14.875, Frame: (black with museum glass) h: 27.25" w: 21.25" d: 1.75"

Description: The Song of Songs of Solomon is a portfolio of 12 drypoint etchings inspired by the Old Testament. The protagonists of Song of Songs are a woman and a man, and the poem suggests movement from courtship. Song of Songs has often been interpreted as a parable of the relationship of God and Israel, or for Christians, Christ and the church or Christ and the human soul as husband and wife.

Medium: Color Etching and Pochoir with gold dust on wove paper

Edition: 26/250

Condition: Excellent

Date: 1971

Signature: Pencil on Lower Right

Salvador Dalí (b.1904, Figures, Catalonia; d.1989, Figueres, Catalonia)

Dalí received his formal education in fine arts at Madrid. Influenced by Impressionism and the Renaissance masters from a young age, he became increasingly attracted to Cubism and avant-garde movements. He moved closer to Surrealism in the late 1920s and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming one of its leading exponents. Dalí lived in France throughout the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) before leaving for the United States in 1940. He returned to Spain in 1948 where he announced his return to the Catholic faith and developed his "nuclear mysticism" style, based on his interest in classicism, mysticism and recent scientific developments.