Code: 10334
Dimensions:
'Corridor de Kathmandu' (Katmandu Corridor) 1969, the second image from Hippies series of eleven images, an original print: a drypoint etching with hand colouring, image size: 394 x 315mm on Japanese paper sheet size: 660 x 510mm. Numbered in carbon pencil XLVII/C (47/100) to the left in the lower margin and signed in carbon pencil to the right in the lower margin. With a square-cut double overmount with bevel fillet insert and twin agate lines within a closed-corner gold metal-leaf frame rubbed through on top edges to black bole and glazed with an overall size of: 892 x 692mm. Print number 378 in the Dali catalogue raisonne of etchings and mixed media prints 1924-1980, illustrated on page 179. With various labels to verso including a certificate from the Muse du Surrealisme. It is in pristine condition, impeccably mounted and framed.
Seeing the photographs taken by Pierre Argillet (1910-2021) during a trip to Kathmandu, Dalí decided to illustrate some subjects around the flower power movement that was emerging in the late sixties/early seventies. In the meanwhile, the Master, always inclined to shock the bourgeois, is delighted to surround himself and show himself with a youth that was free of all constraints and tasting artificial paradises. We find and can experience this freedom in the Hippies series of eleven images, in which the subject and the movement are treated only by a few pure and essential linear lines, with no frills of any kind.
