Textile design
Artist
Salvador Dali
(1904 - 1989)
1951
Gouache on card
Gift of Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe
Object number99.78.4
James Lehrer Inc. commissioned Salvador Dalí to design ties between 1948 and 1952. An example of his original gouache designs is shown here. Printed in rayon and selling for $1.50, Dalí’s styles were the tie brand’s best seller during the early 1950s. Dalí found no conflict in designing commercial products, stating in 1952, “The modern artist … should participate in every kind of extracurricular activity. Michelangelo designed the dress for the Pope’s Swiss Guards. It is all part of the propaganda of your imagination, no?”
DescriptionPainted necktie design; Gouache on card, wove paper faced on obverse and reverse; faces and birds in blue and white on light blue; Signed and dated in black gouache at the middle of the lower edgeCollections
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