P3D Re Salvator Dali

[abram klooswyk <abram.klooswyk@xxxxxx>]

Udo.Steinkemper wrote (PHOTO-3D Digest 3292, 19 Apr 1999):
> I've heard that Salvador Dali has made some stereoscopic paintings 
>and/or drawings. Is there a - still available - book with examples of 
>these paintings/drawings? 
Peter Davis mentioned the book "Stereogram".

The edition of the book "Stereogram" I have is by Seiji Hiribuchi,
editor,
Cadence books, USA, 1994, ISBN  0 7522 09248, 
but it refers to the publishers Boxtree, London UK and Shogakukan,
Tokyo, Japan.
It has 5 Dali stereo paintings. The book is out off print, however, I
found a number 
of second hand copies for sale at Barnesandnoble. 
(http://www.Barnesandnoble.com/).

There has been a Dali exhibition in 1979/1980 in Paris, to which a large
volume was published: "Salvador Dali - Retrospective 1920-1980", Paris
1979.
I have a _German_ translation of this work (probably the exhibition was
in
Munich as well), published by Prestel-Verlag Muenchen, ISBN
3-7913-0494-1.
Only 12 pages of the 446 are devoted to Dali's stereo work, with six
stereo
viewable paintings. The largest is 2 x 20 x 20 cm, it is "Galas
Christus"
or "Le Christ de Gala" or "Christ of Gala" 1978, which also is in the
Japanese
book. 
The original is 100 x 100 cm. According to "Stereogram" it is in the
Ludwig
Museum, but the Retrospective book says: Centre Art Gallery, Honolulu,
Hawaii.
This might explain why George Skelly saw a copy in Honolulu in 1982. And
why
the original later was in Munich, Germany, probably at an exhibition;
but the
Ludwig Museum is in Cologne, Germany. 

George Skelly wrote (PHOTO-3D Digest 3293, 19 Apr 1999):
>The image was a sort of crucifixion scene, with the 
>figure on the ground. There was a blurry section  on the lower left 
>hand corner of the image.

I have found a rough reproduction of these stereo lithographs on the web 
(not half as good as in the books) at
http://daligallery.com/gallery3.html.
(There the images are one above the other, I have downloaded both images
and displayed them side by side with the free viewer Irfanview.)

The crucifixion is not on the ground, but horizontally floating in the 
air (the scene is seen from the upper end of the cross).
The blurry section in the lower left is a large sun (rising?) just above
the horizon of a desert. In the lower right corner is a rock. 

It is not widely known that a stereoscopic drawing by Salvador Dali was 
used as logo of the second I.S.U. Congress in Paris-St.Mande 1976.
This showed a large Cyclopean Eye in a desert, extending from the
horizon to nearby. A small human figure indicated the size of the eye.
Dali's name was also a little in stereo: the "A" protrudes.

Abram Klooswyk


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