Salvador Dali

A wonderful signed 6.25 x 8″ photograph by the Spanish surrealist artist, the image depicting Dali holding a jumbo-sized telephone receiver over a piece of white coral, whilst accompanied by another gentleman. Photograph by Bela Cseh of New York. Signed (‘Salvador Dali’) in bold blue ink to a light area at the base of the image and dated 1973.

In his 1942 autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, the artist wrote ‘I do not understand why, when I ask for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, I am never served a cooked telephone; I do not understand why champagne is always chilled and why on the other hand telephones, which are habitually so frightfully warm and disagreeably sticky to the touch, are not also put in silver buckets with crushed ice around them‘

Size: 16 x 20 cm

Condition: Very good, with a few minor remnants of former mounting to the verso.