Salvador Dalí – Femme à l'Escargot

Femme à l'Escargot, 1967 From Poèmes Secrets d'Apollinaire

• Artist: Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989)
• Medium: Lithograph in colors
• Dimensions: 38.6 × 28.6 cm (15.20 × 11.26 in)
• Signature: Signed
• Portfolio: Poèmes Secrets d'Apollinaire
• Reference: Michler & Löpsinger 195 

Femme à l'Escargot is a color lithograph executed in 1967 by Salvador Dalí — one of the most celebrated, prolific, and culturally iconic artists of the twentieth century — signed by the artist, from the portfolio Poèmes Secrets d'Apollinaire, and catalogued as Michler & Löpsinger 195.

The collaboration between Dalí and the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire is one of the most celebrated and culturally resonant pairings in the history of the illustrated artist's book — a meeting of two of the most daring, inventive, and boundary-dissolving imaginations in twentieth-century French and European culture. Apollinaire — the poet, critic, and avant-garde impresario who coined the word "surrealism" and whose work stands as one of the founding texts of literary modernism — provided Dalí with a literary universe of erotic charge, mythological density, and surrealist freedom entirely consistent with his own deepest visual and intellectual preoccupations. In Femme à l'Escargot, Dalí brings his characteristic visual language — the precise, hallucinatory rendering of incongruous forms in impossible juxtaposition — to bear on the imagery of Apollinaire's secret poems, producing a composition of erotic suggestiveness, formal wit, and chromatic richness entirely characteristic of his work at its most inventive and personally engaged.

Catalogued as Michler & Löpsinger 195 — the definitive scholarly reference for Dalí's printed oeuvre — this work is fully documented within the most authoritative academic record of his prints.

Adhesive trace present in the upper left corner on the verso. Crease in the right corner. Good overall condition.

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Is this an original work by Salvador Dalí? Yes — an authentic signed color lithograph from the portfolio Poèmes Secrets d'Apollinaire, executed in 1967 and catalogued as Michler & Löpsinger 195.

What is the Poèmes Secrets d'Apollinaire portfolio? A celebrated illustrated portfolio in which Dalí's imagery accompanies the erotic and surrealist poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire — the poet who coined the word "surrealism" and whose work stands as a founding text of literary modernism. The collaboration represents one of the most resonant pairings in the history of the twentieth-century illustrated book.

What is the Michler & Löpsinger reference? M. & L. 195 is the catalogue raisonné reference for this work — the definitive scholarly documentation of Dalí's printed oeuvre.

What are the dimensions? 38.6 × 28.6 cm (15.20 × 11.26 in)

What is the condition? Adhesive trace in upper left corner on verso. Crease in right corner. Good overall condition. Full condition report available upon request.

Is worldwide shipping available? Yes — secure worldwide shipping from France with professional packaging, tracking, and insurance.