The Bullfighter (Golden Calf)

Artist Salvador Dali Spanish, 1904 - 1989

Date1980

MediumLithograph

DimensionsSheet: 29 3/8 × 21 in. (74.6 × 53.3 cm)
Image Size: 22 3/8 × 17 in. (56.8 × 43.2 cm)
Matboard: 35 1/2 × 27 in. (90.2 × 68.6 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineGift of Anne Messer and Daniel Gordon

Object number2022.1

On View

Not on view

SignedLower right in pencil

InscribedLower left: XXIII/C

DescriptionColorful image of a human-like figure in the center of bull horns on a blue background. Text on the viewer's left of the image reads "domer a le despieries limmortalit." Bottom portion of image resembles a landscape in greens and yellows. Orange outline of a bull's head on the viewer's right. Edition printed at Studio 28 New York, New York. Blind stamp at lower left corner of sheet with "DALI ART N.V. COPYRIGHT 1980."ProvenanceUnknown art gallery in Saratoga Springs, NY [1]; purchased by Anne Messer and Daniel Gordon; given to The Hyde Collection, 2022.

[1] According to email from Anne Messer, February 15, 2022.