Lot 104 - Salvador DALI (1904-1989) “Eye”. 1967.

Starting price : 950€

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

"Eye." 1967.

Signed prototype and executed eye model for the final Cyclops sculpture.

Ocularist's prosthesis with light brown iris signed "Dali" then varnished, accompanied by a prototype with blue iris in enamelled ceramic on wood.

The prosthesis is signed by Salvador Dali with a drawing of blood vessels.

In its circular metal box painted yellow and marked on the lid: "Lemoine-Flizet-Peigné, ocularists. 76, boulevard de Magenta. Paris".

Dimensions of the ocularist prosthesis: 2.2 x 2.8 x 1.1 cm.

Prototype dimensions: 2.6 x 1.7 cm. Provenance: Prosthesis and prototype offered in 1987 by a manager of the Daum crystal factory to the current owner. Bibliography: Noël Daum, La pâte de verre, Paris, Éditions Denoël, 1984, p. 167. Like the new realist César (1921-1998), Salvador Dali collaborated with Jacques Daum (1909-1987) on the creation of surrealist decorative objects in crystal paste. Published by the famous glass manufacturer between 1968 and 1985, the works have the particularity of reviving the ancient technique of glass paste by adding about a third of lead. Dali then designed in 1967 a sculpture almost 50 cm high stylizing Polyphemus flanked by a single eye. The unsigned ceramic eye model has a blue iris, as in the final version of the sculpture produced by Daum. In order to design his creation from a naturalistic model, Dali was inspired by our ocularist's prosthesis, which he signed and then varnished. This suggests that the Cyclops originally had a light brown eye.
1200/1500€