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Saint George and the Dragon
Bronze, 46 cm

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About the artwork

Dalí transforms the traditional iconography of the legend of Saint George, in a symbolic and interpretive work. The Saint is the brave knight in shining golden armor, represented in the act of inflicting the mortal blow on the dragon and saving the life of the princess of Selene at his side. Metamorphic touches find their way into this sculpture: the dragon’s wings morph into flames and the tongue is formed like a crutch, one of Dalí’s favored symbolic elements. The absence of facial features both in Saint George and the princess, is a typical Dalinian reference, underlining the purely symbolic significance of the figures. In this sculpture Dalí focuses on the duality between life and death and good and evil. A larger size version of this sculpture was donated to Pope John Paul II in 1995 for display in Rome’s Vatican collection.

About the artist

Born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain, Salvador Dalí’s eccentric nature and talent for self-promotion made him the most famous representative of the surrealist movement and one of the most widely recognised artists in the world. Identified as an artistic prodigy from a tender age, Dalí attended the drawing school at the Colegio de Hermanos Maristas and the Instituto in Figueres, Spain in 1916. In 1922, he enrolled in the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid and received recognition during his first solo show held in Barcelona in 1925. Dalí became internationally known after the third annual Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1928 and grew to immense notoriety and fame. Today, his sculptures and paintings are exhibited in the most prestigious museums in the world and part of many coveted private and public collections.

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