SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueras, Girona, 1904 - 1989). "Nude woman climbing the stairs", 1974. Sculpture in 18kt yellow gold on silver pedestal.

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  SALVADOR DALÍ I DOMÈNECH (Figueras, Girona, 1904 - 1989). "Nude woman climbing the stairs", 1974. Sculpture in 18kt yellow gold on silver pedestal. Exemplary A-234. Print run of 300 copies. Signed, dated and justified. Measurements: 13,5 x 9 x 11 cm. Certificate of authenticity enclosed. We are in front of a sculpture made in 1974 by Salvador Dalí representing a nude woman climbing a staircase, made in 18 carat yellow gold on a silver pedestal. The theme of ""Naked woman climbing the stairs"" has been a recurring theme in the production of artists such as Miró, who in March 1937 made a pencil and charcoal drawing with the same theme. It could also be a tribute to Marcel Duchamp, who in 1912 made a series of paintings with the model of ""Nude Woman Descending a Staircase"", this work is considered a modernist classic and has become one of the most famous of its time. At its first showing at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, it was rejected by the Cubists and caused quite a stir during its exhibition at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. The work is now on permanent display in the collection of Luis and Walter Arensberg at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia. Salvador Dalí, the quintessential surrealist artist, gives us in this sculpture the image of a young woman climbing a staircase, which is a conch shell. During his early years, Dalí discovered contemporary painting during a family visit to Cadaqués, where he met the family of Ramon Pichot, an artist who regularly traveled to Paris. Following Pichot's advice, Dalí began to study painting with Juan Núñez. In 1922, Dalí stayed at the famous Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid to begin studying Fine Arts at the San Fernando Academy. However, before his final exams in 1926, he was expelled for claiming that there was no one there fit to examine him. That same year Dalí traveled to Paris for the first time. There he met Picasso, and established some formal characteristics that would become distinctive of all his work from then on. During this period, Dalí held regular exhibitions in both Barcelona and Paris, and joined the surrealist group based in the Parisian neighborhood of Montparnasse. The painter landed in America in 1934, thanks to art dealer Julian Levy. As a result of his first individual exhibition in New York, his international projection was definitively consolidated, and since then he has been showing his work and giving lectures all over the world. Most of his production is gathered in the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueras, followed by the collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg (Florida), the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Salvador Dalí Gallery in Pacific Palisades (California), the Espace Dalí in Montmartre (Paris) or the Dalí Universe in London."
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