PREMONITION DE TIROIRS

This table-top clock is a baroque version of Dalí’s anthropomorphic cabinet image.  The complex and vaguely menacing form is based on a semi-recumbent female figure with a number of partly-open drawers.  Her throat and neck are covered by her long hair.  Rather than a head, she possesses a functioning clock, a symbol of fleeting time, one of Dalí’s enduring obsessions.  Like many of the artist’s other artworks, there is a single Spanish bean positioned on top. The figure is partially enclosed in a metallic, featureless presence of rounded corners and large holes.  The entire form twists and entwines around the figure at the head and also along the ground.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Date: 1973  

Material: bronze

Technique: lost wax process

Edition size: 8 plus 4EA

Height: 20,5 cm

Direct intervention (created by Dalí): the idea, the image and original maquette

Indirect intervention (created by artisans): lost wax process and patina