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The conquest of the irrational. Books of Salvador Dali from the collections of Mark and Pavel Bashmakov
Exhibition August 15 − October 18, 2020
The State Hermitage Holds an Exhibition“The conquest of the irrational. Books by Salvador Dali from the collections of Mark and Pavel Bashmakovyh.
The exhibition at the General Staff Building continues the exhibition program dedicated to the books of surrealist artists. It will include more than twenty books and graphic series published in the 1930-1970s.
The famous cycle of engravings to Songs of Maldoror (1934) will be shown for the first time in the Hermitage. Among the publications of the 1950s-1960s, illustrations for Don Quixote (one of Dali's best works, the result of experiments with lithography techniques developing surrealist methods of "automatic" drawing), as well as huge (one hundred and one hundred and five sheets, respectively) cycles of illustrations for "Divine Comedy" and the Bible. Later, Dali's work is represented primarily by spectacular large-format editions: Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud, The Twelve Tribes of Israel, Dreams by Francisco de Quevedo, and La Fontaine's Dalinized bestiary. Works from the 1970s also include the series Caprichos Goya by Salvador Dali and The Mischievous Dreams of Pantagruel. Their sources were not literary, but graphic works, but the artist's method is the same as in his illustrations: the original motive is supplemented by Dalian pictorial details, prompted by a sudden play of associations.
Prepared from the materials of the official website of the museumThe State Hermitage Museum.
The exhibition at the General Staff Building continues the exhibition program dedicated to the books of surrealist artists. It will include more than twenty books and graphic series published in the 1930-1970s.
The famous cycle of engravings to Songs of Maldoror (1934) will be shown for the first time in the Hermitage. Among the publications of the 1950s-1960s, illustrations for Don Quixote (one of Dali's best works, the result of experiments with lithography techniques developing surrealist methods of "automatic" drawing), as well as huge (one hundred and one hundred and five sheets, respectively) cycles of illustrations for "Divine Comedy" and the Bible. Later, Dali's work is represented primarily by spectacular large-format editions: Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud, The Twelve Tribes of Israel, Dreams by Francisco de Quevedo, and La Fontaine's Dalinized bestiary. Works from the 1970s also include the series Caprichos Goya by Salvador Dali and The Mischievous Dreams of Pantagruel. Their sources were not literary, but graphic works, but the artist's method is the same as in his illustrations: the original motive is supplemented by Dalian pictorial details, prompted by a sudden play of associations.
Prepared from the materials of the official website of the museumThe State Hermitage Museum.
