Pen and dark brown ink on cream wove paper, 1960. 349x458 mm; 13 3/4x18 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right recto, and counter signed in blue ink, verso.
With a photograph attestation signed by Mara Albaretto, Turin; an authentication by Albert Field, New York, dated May 8, 1998; and a photograph authentication signed by Salvador Dali.
Dalí (1904-1989), known for his significant contributions to the Surrealist movement, frequently employed motifs such as soft figures, ants and desolate landscapes to visualize the unconscious mind (see also lot 529). The current work exemplifies Dalí's grotesque yet meticulous artistic style, which developed during the political tumult and Spanish Civil War of the 1930s and 1940s and which he maintained over the course of his career.
This ink drawing recalls his 1940 oil painting Daddy Longlegs of the Evening--Hope!, now in the Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, which includes a similar horse and winged Nike/Victory of Samothrace motifs.
