Salvador Dalí works on his experiments with the sea urchin he calls Sputnik holding a dried flower and moving backwards and forewards thus marking the blackened paper. These experiments he is carrying out at his studio in his Spanish home at Portlligat, Cadaqués on the Costa Brava 1957.
In his studio at Portlligat, Spain, in 1957, Salvador Dalí conducts an experiment. Wearing a soft, folded hat, he leans forward to inspect the wispy white patterns taking shape on a large sheet of blackened paper. The marks are created by a contraption in the foreground: a sea urchin Dalí called Sputnik, holding a dried flower, is mounted on a glass stand. By moving back and forth, the artist uses this delicate instrument to inscribe the abstract design onto the paper.
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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com / © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich
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