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Sleep, c.1937 by Salvador Dali

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"Sleep" was painted with oil on canvas for Edward James, a British millionaire who was Dali's patron from 1936 to 1939. "Sleep" deals with a subject that fascinated the Surrealists: the world dreams. They believed that the freedom of the subconscious within sleep could be tapped into and then used creatively. "Sleep" is a visual rendering of the body's collapse into sleep, as if into a separate state of being. Against a deep blue summer sky, a huge disembodied head with eyes dissolved in sleep, hangs suspended over an almost empty landscape. The head is "soft" appearing both vulnerable and distorted; what should be a neck tapers away to drop limply over a crutch. A dog appears, its head in a crutch, as if half asleep itself. The head is propped above the land by a series of woodeden crutches. The mouth, nose and also the eyes are all held in place by the crutches, suggesting that the head might disintegrate if they were removed. Crutches were a familiar sight in Dali's work. In "The Secert Life of Salvador Dali," the artist wrote that he had imagined sleep as heavy monster that was "held up by the crutches of reality."

Product Information:
Product ID#: 24431
Title: Sleep, c.1937
Artist: Salvador Dali
Type: Fine-Art Print
Paper Size: 32" x 24"

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