"Cybele" - Mother Earth by Salvador Dali

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Ended:December 27th 2017, 6:00am EST

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Cybele by Salvador Dali (1972/73)
Original multiple patinated bronze sculpture, signed by the artist in the bronze.

Literature: Sculptures and objects: Dali - the Hard and the Soft by Robert and Nicolas Descharnes. Page 201 - Reference 497
Size: 400 mms height x 130 x 110 mms (Including base); Excluding base: 310 x 130 x 110 mms
Weight: 11 kgs
Published by: Cory Gallery Editions, 377 Geary Street, San Francisco, USA
Authenticity: We have a copy of a letter dated 5/6/1996 signed by Albert Field of the Salvador Dali Archives. He states that he has a copy of a contract signed by Salvador Dali and Edward J Cory concerning this item. He goes on to say that the Archives purchased statue number 30/100 from Mrs Estelle Cory.
Cast by: Art Bronzes, San Leandro, California.

Note: We have a copy of a Press Release made by The Cory Gallery. In this document it states that the Madonna-like face is fitted with Dali’s symbolical drawer in the forehead and that the handsome and forceful torso, with multiple breasts, proclaims her to indeed be a modern version of Artemis, the ancient Greek goddess of fertility. Cybele was the great Phrygian Mother of the Gods—a primal nature goddess worshipped with orgiastic rites in the mountains of central and western Anatolia.

An additional Dali motif is the melting clock on her shoulder. A further press cutting by Cory Galleries, of which we also have a copy, states “She has 18 breasts and a drawer in her forehead."

Edition: 9/100 - Editioned in the bronze.

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