Salavador Dali, Michelin Slave

In his book entitled Esculturas. Sculpture. A. Reynolds Morse identifies two distinct categories in the sculptures of Salvador Dali. The first is defined as the "only genuine group of Dali's original sculptures"(Morse, Esculturas. Sculpture p. 16). This group of forty-three wax sculptures, made between 1971 and 1981, are known today as the Clot Collection. The originality of these works lies in the fact that both the idea and its execution truly bore the hands of the artist. …

…and exposing the core pins. In conclusion, it should be noted that deceptive weight is not uncharacteristic in Dali's sculptures. Explaining his intentions to layer a plaster-like mount over the bronze cast of the Venus de Milo aux Tiroirs, Dali refers to the characteristically surrealist theory that things are not always as they appear: "When is try to lift, is coming one sur-preez, is very 'eavy, que one is not expected". "(Morse, Esculturas. Sculpture p. 18)