Description
- Número de catàleg raonat OG:
- OG 017
- Propietari:
- Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
- Ens dipositari:
- Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
- Fons:
- Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres
Onan, a volume of poems by Georges Hugnet (1906-1974), was published by Éditions Surréalistes in Paris in 1934. Of the total print run, seventy-seven copies were illustrated with a frontispiece by Salvador Dalí, reproduced using rotogravure and printed by Ateliers Lacourière. According to the colophon, the book was printed on 10 June 1934, at the Grou-Radenez printing house. The book's title refers to an episode from Genesis (Old Testament). Onan, a rebellious character, is condemned to death by divine justice for wasting his seed and refusing to marry his brother Er's widow. (1) In this rotogravure, Dalí reflects his affinity with Hugnet’s verse, marked by sexual desire, loneliness, and exclusion. On a plate laden with ‘spasmo-graphisms,’ the artist inscribed the phrase: ‘“ESPASMO-GRAFIFISME” [sic] OBTENU AVEC LA MAIN GAUCHE PENDANT / QU’AVEC LA MAIN DROITE JE ME MASTURBE JUSQU’AU SANG / JUSQU’AU L’OS JUSQU’AU HÈLICES [sic] DU / CALICE’’ (‘Spasmo-graphism obtained with the left hand while / with the right hand I masturbate to the blood / to the bone to the helices of the / chalice’). The theme of onanism, present in the artist’s pictorial work since 1927, appears in a veiled form in Apparatus and Hand (Cat. P 195) and is openly addressed in his poem The Great Masturbator and in the oil painting Face of the Great Masturbator (Cat. P 235), both from 1930. __________ (1) King James Bible, Genesis 38:9-10: ‘And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.’
- Títol original:
- Onan
- Journal title:
- Onan
- Sèrie:
- ONAN
- Physical description:
- Book with print (frontispiece)
- Tipus de producció:
- Obra original individual - Edició original autoritzada de tiratge limitat
- Autor de l'estampa:
- Salvador Dalí i Domènech
- Autor de la publicació:
- Georges Hugnet
- Editor:
- Éditions Surréalistes
- Impressor:
- Roger Lacourière
- Taller execució:
- Imprimerie Grou-Radenez
- Data de producció:
- 1934
- Número de còpia i tiratge:
- 43
- Lloc de producció:
- París, França
- Observacions sobre la producció:
- Total edition: 277. 50 with an original engraving signed by Dalí 1 - 3 (3) Chinese paper 4 - 10 (7) Montval paper 11 - 50 (40) Arches paper These fifty copies contain an original etching signed by Salvador Dalí 51 – 250 (200) Alfa Bouffant paper (indicated in the ‘‘Subscription Bulletin’’) 2 on Chinese paper printed by the author and the illustrator HC 25 on Turner Geranium paper
- Història de l’objecte:
- Acquisition
Documentació històrica relacionada
- Salvador Dalí (il.), Dalí et les poètes, Filipacchi, Paris, 1971, 27
- Salvador Dalí. Graphik-Folgen, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein, Kiel, 1972, nº. 1
- La Vie publique de Salvador Dalí, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, 1980, 37
- Dalí e i libri, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació, [Barcelona], 1982, 37
- Dalí i els llibres, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura., Barcelona, 1982, 110
- Dalí und die Bücher, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura., [Barcelona], 1983, 37
- Dalí y los libros, Mediterrània, [Barcelona], 1985, 93
- Dalí and his books, Generalitat de Catalunya, [Barcelona], 1987, 39
- Surrealisme a Catalunya, 1924-1936: de l'Amic de les Arts al Logicofobisme, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1988, 196
- Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, 1989, 419
- Dalí a knihy, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura., Mediterrània, Barcelona, 1992, 39
- Mason, Rainer Michael, Dalí verdadero / grabado falso : la obra impresa 1930-1934, IVAM. Centre Julio González, València, 1992, 21
- Salvador Dalí, catalogue raisonné of etchings and mixed-media prints 1924-1980, Prestel, Munich, 1994, 31,127
- Cento libri surrealisti, Centro Di, Firenze, 1996, 109
- Albert Field, The Official catalog of the graphic works of Salvador Dalí, The Salvador Dalí Archives, New York, 1996, 16
- Surrealist prints, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1997, 24
- Dalí il·lustrador : Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Govern d'Andorra. Ministeri de Turisme i Cultura, Andorra, 2001, 82
- André Breton : 42, rue Fontaine : livres I, Calmels Cohen, Paris, 2003, 273
- Dalí : afinidades electivas, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura., Barcelona, 2004, 115
- Dalí : afinitats electives, Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura., Barcelona, 2004, 115
- Dalí una vida de llibre = Dalí a life in books, Destino [etc.], Barcelona, 2004, 130
- Juan José Lahuerta, El Fenómeno del éxtasis, Siruela, Madrid, 2004, 44
- Catherine Millet, Dalí and me, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich, 2008, 100
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