Salvador Dali Prints - Artist Biography
Salvador Dali’s Life Outside of Art
 Salvador Dali is the son of an esteemed notary and he was born in Figueras, which is small town in Northern Spain. From an early age, Salvador showed that he had a talent for art and he received the first drawing lessons at ten years old. At that time, he had well-known art teachers such as Ramon Pichot who was a Spanish impressionist painter and afterwards an art professor at Municipal Drawing School. Salvador received his very first printing press in 1923 from his father. Read more to learn about Salvador Dali prints and other art works.
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dy art in Madrid at the Royal Academy of Art, where he got expelled two times and did not take the final examinations. He believed that he had more talent and qualification than the individuals who were going to examine him.
He worked really hard to create an image of a paranoid and an eccentric genius. In all probability he just followed the guidelines of marketing an item, which was of course, the Salvador Dali prints. His prints were produced in various techniques which were mainly etchings, yet also lithographs, engravings, mixed-media and woodcuts. His graphic pieces were published as individual sheets or complete series as well as portfolios or illustrations for limited-edition books.
Alfred Field has been collecting information for Salvador Dali prints as well as other works for more than forty years. Field is the director at Dali Archives Ltd in New York and was doing this with the artist’s approval. In 1994, Field published The Official Catalog of Salvador Dali Graphic Works.
This catalog listed 1700 authentic and genuine graphic works and they were grouped by Alfred as cooperative and original prints. The original prints were defined as work that Salvador created himself and the cooperative prints were defined as work that was supervised and authorized by Dali.
It is good to trust established auction houses or art galleries but this is not sufficient protection. The fraudulent and/or incompetent art dealers are located in crummy basement outlets, in addition to upscale auction rooms and galleries. The art professionals utilize reference books, known as catalog raisonne, in order to identify the genuineness of an art work. When it comes to Salvador prints, two of these reference books were available:
Albert Field, The Official Catalog of Graphic Works of Salvador Dali, published in 1996 by Salvador Dali Archives Ltd.
Ralf Michler and other people, The Catalog Raisonne of Etchings and Mixed-Media Prints, published in 1924 to 1980 as well as Catalog Raisonne of Prints II, Lithographs and Wood Engravings.
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