Necklace, Salvador Dalí

Designed as the figure of Christ, suspended from a series of nail shaped links, length approximately 610mm, may be shortened to 415mm, signed Dali, numbered, gross weight approximately 28 grams.

Two clasps and pendant signed Dali. Clasps numbered AA747/1000. Gross weight approximately 28 grams. In very good condition.
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‘Paladin of a new Renaissance, I too refuse to be confined. My art encompasses physics, mathematics, architecture, nuclear science… and jewellery – not paint alone…’ Salvador Dali, A Study of His Art in Jewels, New York, 1959

Dali was brought into jewellery design as part of a business collaboration with Fulco Verdura expertly plotted by the notorious publisher and patron of the arts (as well as designer of the first backless brassière), Caresse Crosby. From 1949 he began to work with jewellers Alemany and Ertman, producing a number of his most enduring and memorable designs, characterised throughout by their intelligence, their focus on craftsmanship over material value and Dali’s traditional fixation with, in his words, ‘the interrelation of spirit and matter; of time and space…’. Standing alongside some of his most famous pieces, including The Tree of Life and The Eye of Time, this necklace follows the form of his 1951 painting, ‘Christo de San Juan de la Cruz’, Kelingrove Gallery, Glasgow.