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9366 - Rare Salvador Dali limited edition (supplied with a certificate of authenticity signed by the Master Printer). This edition was published as an edition of only 95 Worldwide and the quality of this art piece is absolutely stunning. It will be supplied with a replacement valuation certificate for £1800 free of charge. Framed and mounted and in excellent condition. "Swans Reflecting Elephants, 1937" is one of Dali's most popular paintings. In a rugged landscape, painted masterfully in smooth, beautiful colours, three swans sit by a lake in which their graceful necks are reflected, not rationally but as elephants' trunks. As a surrealist, Dali was fascinated by human psychology. He was particularly interested in the way in which people create links in their minds between unrelated objects He often explores this in his work through double images, of which the swans and elephants in this painting are a highly successful example. For Dali, this provided a new way of looking at reality. The Catalonian artist, who was renowned for his flamboyant behaviour, stated that with paintings like this he wanted to "systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality." As well as the double image, Dali has made the rest of the land¬≠scape appear surreal almost as though it is from another planet. The clouds are unconventional and the spindly trees, which also reflect to look like the elephants' legs, are eerie, with the one on the far left appearing to have an almost wom¬≠anly form. We know that Dali was preoccupied with sex and often included sexually symbolic images in his paintings. And then there is the question of the mystery man, who almost blends into the landscape. It has been said that he is meant to represent a chemist from a nearby village m Catalonia, and that Dali would often take such figures, who represented the mundane and bureaucratic 'real world', and insert them into the fantastic and hallucinogenic worlds he created in his paintings yet another way of reinterpreting reality. H: 94cm W: 120cm D: 4cm