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Salvador Dali was influenced by the 17th century painter Giovanni Battista Bracelli, sometimes referred to as the first Surrealist. The twisted imagination of Bracelli was so ahead of his time, painting in 1624 such subjects as figures composed of fabricated objects like metal links, plates, and screws, tennis rackets, concertinas, and shoe racks.
The Bracelli lamp is an archetypal design of Jean Michel and Dali, adopted by Dali for his house at Port Lligat. We see an angular almost unbalanced form, dreamlike and surreal. The reoccurring theme of the Muletas, or "crutch" appears here to restore order through frailty to the composition. Ironically, the appearance of crutches in Dali?s work can indicate a fragility of the human condition; here it seems to repair it.
The panel structure is covered in fine gold leaf. The supporting crutch is carved from pale varnished beech. Ivory-colored cotton and rayon shade is hand made, 37 cm in diameter by 28 cm high. The lamp overall is an impressive 170 cm high.
Takes a E-27 100W spherical bulb.
Photo credits: Leopold Samso, Merce Lopez and Amparo Chaler. |
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