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1. High Auction record : £13.5m(2천2백10억원), Sotheby's, 2011

2. Collected by a Major Museum : Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Centre Pompidou, Tate, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Dallas Museum of Art, Museo Reina Sofia, Art Institute of Chicago, Moderna Museet, Stockholm etc.

Salvador Dalí Multiple Sculptures Collection - Saint George and the Dragon

달리는 전통적인 성 조지 전설의 도상학을 상징적이고 해석적인 작품으로 변형시켰다. 성녀는 빛나는 황금 갑옷을 입은 용감한 기사로, 용에게 치명타를 입히고 그의 곁에 있는 셀레네 공주의 목숨을 구하는 행위로 표현된다.

용의 날개는 불꽃으로 변하고 혀는 달리가 좋아하는 상징적 요소 중 하나인 지팡이처럼 형성된다.

성 게오르기우스와 공주 모두 얼굴 생김새가 없다는 것은 전형적인 달리니아식 언급으로, 인물들의 순수한 상징적 의미를 강조한다.

이 조각품에서 달리는 삶과 죽음, 선과 악의 이중성에 초점을 맞추고 있다.

이 조각품의 대형조각 버전은 1995년 달리 우주관에 의해 로마의 바티칸 소장품에 전시되기 위해 교황 요한 바오로 2세에게 제출되었다.

Dalí transforms the traditional iconography of the legend of Saint George, in a symbolic and interpretive work. The Saint is the brave knight in shining golden armor, represented in the act of inflicting the mortal blow on the dragon and saving the life of the princess of Selene at his side.

Metamorphic touches find their way into this sculpture: the dragon’s wings morph into flames and the tongue is formed like a crutch, one of Dalí’s favored symbolic elements.

The absence of facial features both in Saint George and the princess, is a typical Dalinian reference, underlining the purely symbolic significance of the figures.

In this sculpture Dalí focuses on the duality between life and death and good and evil.

A larger size version of this sculpture was presented to Pope John Paul II in 1995 by the Dalí Universe for display in Rome’s Vatican collection.

Date : conceived in 1977, first cast in 1984

Material : bronze

Technique : lost wax process

Edition size : 350 + 35 EA

Height : 46cm

Edition : patina green/brown

Maquette : original gouache, Saint George and the Dragon 

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

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