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Marguerite Flowers

Artist: Salvador Dalí

Date: 1967

Medium: Lithograph

Dimensions: 57 × 76 cm

Location: Niavaran Palace

Marguerite Flowers (1967) is a lithograph by Salvador Dalí, the renowned Spanish painter and leading figure of Surrealism. The work reflects Dalí’s imaginative visual language and technical precision, hallmarks of his mature artistic production.

Biography

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was born in Figueres, Spain. A painter, illustrator, designer, and writer, he became one of the most influential and controversial figures of the Surrealist movement. After studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, he moved to Paris, where he joined the Surrealists and developed his distinctive interpretation of the movement’s principles.

Dalí gained international recognition with paintings such as The Persistence of Memory, in which dream imagery is rendered with meticulous realism. In collaboration with filmmaker Luis Buñuel, he co-created the Surrealist films Un Chien Andalou and L'Âge d'Or.

During World War II, Dalí resided in the United States (1940–1955), later returning to Spain. Although initially embraced by Surrealist leader André Breton, he was expelled from the group in 1938 due to ideological differences.

Dalí’s artistic universe is populated by dreamlike and often unsettling imagery—melting clocks, monumental insects, and distorted landscapes—rendered with extraordinary technical skill. He described his paintings as “hand-painted dream photographs,” emphasizing their illusionistic precision combined with subconscious symbolism, often influenced by Freudian interpretations of dreams.

In addition to his paintings, Dalí designed theatrical sets, jewelry, and wrote extensively about his life and artistic philosophy. Among his notable works are Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), The Last Supper, and The Persistence of Memory.

Dalí remains one of the most recognizable figures of 20th-century art, celebrated both for his technical mastery and for the powerful, dreamlike imagery that defines his oeuvre.