^Lot 45W Dali Limited Edition Bronze Sculpture - Portrait Of Picasso

This is a limited edition, signed bronze sculpture entitled "PORTRAIT OF PICASSO" (1947) by Salvador Dali. In 1948 Dali decided, after a very fruitful eight-year-long stay in the United States, to return to Europe to devote himself to "nuclear mysticism" with the expert motto his insight that the "the skillful arts of painting were developed once and forever and with the greatest perfection and influence during the Renaissance and that the decadence of modern art finds its origins in skepticism and a lack of faith, which is a consequence of mechanical materialism. Although still filled with Dali-like symbolism, Picasso's portrait has stylistic neoclassical elements. Approx. Dimensions: 5.25 in. x 3.25 in. x 1.5 in.