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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 - Surrealist Warrior

이 조각품은 17세기 프랑스에서 통치한 '태양왕'으로도 알려진 루이 14세를 묘사하고 있다. 달리는 말을 타고 전투에 돌입하는 전사의 모습을 묘사하고 있으며, 그의 팔은 승리에 대한 경례로 치켜들고 있다. 달리는 1971년에 구아슈에 태양왕을 그리고 초현실주의 전사의 이미지가 탄생한 배경이다.

이 전사의 이미지는 달리가 창조한 것과 같이 모든 승리를 상징한다.

이 전사에 대한 달리의 초현실주의적 해석은 가슴에 구멍을 통해 묘사된 빛의 창을 추가하는 것을 포함하며, 명백하지 않은 것뿐만 아니라 일상적인 현실 너머의 꿈 세계를 포괄하는 것을 보는 것을 영감을 준다.

말은 자유와 힘을 상징하는 달리의 작품에서 어디에서나 발견된다. 달리의 초현실주의 전사는 평온한 말을 묘사하는데, 여기에 승리와 왕권의 우위를 암시하는 안장 없는 전사가 추가되었다.

This sculpture illustrates King Louis XIV, also known as the ‘Sun King’, who reigned in France during the seventeenth century. Dalí depicts a striking warrior on horseback, going into battle, with his arm raised in a victory salute. Dalí painted the Sun King on gouache in 1971 and it was here the image of the Surrealist Warrior was born.

The image of the warrior, as created by Dalí, represents all victories, real and ethereal. 

Dalí’s surrealistic interpretation of the warrior includes the addition of a window of light, portrayed through a hole in the chest, inspiring us to see that which is not evident, as well as that which encompasses the dream world beyond everyday reality; Dalí was convinced that heaven could be found in the heart of the man who believes.

Horses are found ubiquitously in Dalí’s artworks, representing freedom and power. Dalí’s Surrealist Warrior portrays a serene horse, the addition of the bareback warrior implying certain victory and royal supremacy.

Date : conceived in 1971, first cast in 1984

Material : bronze

Technique : lost wax process

Edition size : 350 + 35 EA

Height : 51cm

Edition : patina brown

Maquette : original gouache, Surrealist Warrior

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

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