Lithograph, etching, dry needle on BFK Rives paper, 66 x 51 cm in light passe-partout framed 92 x 78 cm
Limited edition, numbered in pencil 75/300 p.d.
Signed in pencil l.d.
Publisher: Levin & Levin New York
Salvador Dali's work 'Madonna Triumphant' is directly based on Salvador Dalí's 1951 oil on canvas titled: 'Sainte Anne et la Vierge' (Saint Anne and the Virgin). Dalí painted several versions of this subject at the time, and this work is one of the reinterpretations specially prepared by Salvador Dali for his Retrospective series (also known as The Retrospective Suite) in 1978, whose official publisher was Levine & Levine (New York). It was a huge commercial venture to bring the most important motifs from Dali's paintings to a group of collectors in the form of luxury prints.
The works published by Levine & Levine are well described in catalogs raisonné (the most important inventories of Dali's works) by Albert Field, among others.
The work combines the artist's obsession with classical painting with his fascination with atomic physics and divine geometry. The figure is disintegrated (or composed) of geometric solids resembling rhino horns - for Dali it was a symbol of logarithmic perfection and purity. This is Dalí's classic "explosive" style, where the sacred mixes with science. The title of the work refers to the majesty and power of this figure. In Dali's iconography, such a "smashing" of the figure does not mean destruction, but precisely the triumph of spirit over matter. This can be seen in the radiant light (explosion) that beams from the center of the figure. The figure does not disintegrate under the influence of the explosion, but emerges from it in the act of creation.
