Salvador Dalì, Invisible face, lithography, 50x65 cm, 1988

Lithograph by the surrealist master Salvador Dali, which proposes the subject of the unique work created between 1941 and 1957.

In those years Dalì was fascinated by the theme of the "double image - the image that suggests or turns into a second image observed at first sight or fixed with attention" giving life to the concept of the "paranoid-critical method".

Dalí's extraordinary creativity is closely connected with the role of the eye, the gaze and observation, which put into action the ability to build visions, to look beyond the image observed at first sight typical of the phenomenon of mimicry.

The phenoment of the "invisible images", the "double images" that are hidden behind a first observation, was experimented by many artists over the centuries and is clearly visible in Dalí's pictorial production. An example is "The Invisible Man" (1929-32) where, the blue pupils of the eyes are also the heads of skeletal bodies; "Appearance of the face and fruit plate on the beach" (1938) where, in the dark depth of the eyes, an amphora and the head of a sleeping child's body appear. And again "Vecchiaia, adolescenza, infanzia" (1940) which in the centre shows two open and peeping eyes which, at the same time, are a landscape with paths, cypresses and foliage represented in detail.

In this work an old ruin of an ancient palace hides the vision of a face, which opens the viewer's gaze to a typically surrealist landscape.

The work was created in 1988.

Watermark on sheet BFK RIVES France infinity

Work signed in plate at bottom right and numbered MC/MM at bottom left.

The lithograph bears the characteristic dry stamp of the GDALI publisher.