Strange corpse with texts and drawings by the brilliant artist Savaldor Dali and some of his friends.
Strange corpse in the form of a handwritten poem, with five small drawings by Salvador Dali, with some corrections and erasures.We do not yet know who the other participants in the work were.
One page.
In French.
12.6 cm x 19.3 cm.
No information about date and location.
Excellent condition of conservation.
Unique piece.
The bus / Boldness / change of perfume / eat artichokes / get divorced quickly / naked phone / what an Angel! / Frisson / illness / Aphrodisiac / Romance / tonight or never / Venus / 3 ginfis /Wysky/ gratin pork pie / exploding giraffe / The weird corpse.
The literary game known as the strange corpse was invented around 1925 by the French surrealist group composed of writers and artists such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Man Ray and Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989). The work was collective with the intention of an “automatic” artistic production. It could be a drawing or a text, each artist would draw or write a small part that would be hidden and continued by another who did not know what was on top and so on, with three or more participants. The game ended up producing curious and fun results.
An extremely original and renowned painter, author of the work Persistence of Memory , Dali left an intense artistic production, unfortunately much copied. There are countlessdrawings and paintingsfake Dali paintings and, on the contrary, very rare are the authenticated originals still available on the world market for collectors.
This document – formally attributed to Dali in 2015 by French experts – contains a literary work and small drawings, with Dali’s active participation, showing two aspects of his creative genius; an additional and very personal interest, an “ explosive giraffe ”, my daughter Sofia’s favorite animal. There is one mystery left to solve… Who were the other participants, anonymous or famous, in this spontaneous work?
