Record details

• generalData.authorNameInListings

  Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

• generalData.title

  Figure

• generalData.creationDate

  1927

• technicalData.measurements

  220 x 202 mm

• technicalData.description

  Ink on paper

• technicalData.complementaryDescription

  Compared to other drawings of 1926 and 1927, generally full and loaded, this drawing stands out for its simplicity of strokes and shapes, few but well defined and without any kind of correction or regret. It might even look like an unfinished drawing (like the one on the verso if it weren't for the fact that it is clearly dated and signed with the artist's name and surname, indisputable proof that Dalí considered it completely finished. It is , in addition, of the artist's signature with the characteristic calligraphy of that time, made with a fine and shaky font, and not like that of some drawings and paintings from this period that Dalí signed years later late only with the surname and with his well-known thick and fast stroke signature. The exceptionality and value of this drawing lies in the fact that Dalí's pictorial production in 1927 was very limited, he only made six paintings (from the year before 26 are known and in 1928 he made at least 27) and a similar number of drawings. So it is one of the few witnesses to the evolution of his thinking in a year that is considered crucial in his trajectory.
  Undoubtedly, the connection that Dalí establishes in this drawing and in the group of works and texts of 1927 between the naked body (of Sant Sebastià, that is to say his), pain, blood and sex was a form to sublimate, or as he said to translate into an "aesthetics of objectivity", the fears, impulses and phobias of the sexual and emotional conflicts resulting from his relationship with García Lorca. The figure in the drawing, because it is only hinted at, becomes an enigmatic and phantasmagorical apparition of which the artist only reveals a few details that are nevertheless a compendium of his obsessions: the hand, the fingers, the touch, the mutilated vein, blood and sex, the eye and the gaze.