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14/08
Modern Masters Spotlight - Salvador Dali
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04/08
Exciting New Collectable Edition from Todd White
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31/07
Modern Masters Spotlight - David Hockney and Andy Warhol
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28/07
Clarendon Magazine Edition 4 Now Available
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24/07
Sherree Valentine Daines visited the Bollinger Champagne house and vineyards
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21/07
Premier collection from British wildlife artist Darryn Eggleton
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21/07
The Grand Unveiling - Clarendon Fine Art Wimbledon Autumn 2017
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20/07
New Clarendon Fine Art Gallery Now Open in Richmond
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17/07
Modern Masters Spotlight - Sir Peter Blake
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14/07
New dance sculpture from Carl Payne
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03/07
Summer Edition - The Gallery Guide
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03/07
Modern Masters Spotlight - Pablo Picasso
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30/06
New collection from rising star Vincent Kamp
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30/06
Fabian Perez Unveils Portrait Of Argentina Presidential Family
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28/06
New Clarendon Fine Art Gallery Opening soon in Richmond
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27/06
Christian Hook awarded Freedom of the City of Gibraltar
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26/06
Modern Masters Spotlight - L.S. Lowry
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22/06
Christian Hook on board The Queen Victoria
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20/06
Clarendon Cobham meets Andy Murray
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19/06
Special release from Sherree Valentine-Daines
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01/06
New Collection by Fabian Perez
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23/05
Andy Murray Partnership with Patrick Bremer
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19/05
Impressions of the season by Sherree Valentine-Daines
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27/04
Zinsky presents ‘Daffodils’ to Marie Curie
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24/04
Simon Kenny's Premier Collection ‘Infinite Impressions’
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20/04
Clarendon Magazine Edition 3 Now Available
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06/04
Come and Meet Contemporary Visionary
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06/04
Michael Speller’s sculpture ‘Harmony’ installation
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05/04
Spring Edition - The Gallery Guide
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21/03
Mesmerising new collection by John Waterhouse
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14/03
Mesmerising New Sculptures by Jennine Parker
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14/03
Lucy Pratt Featured on Front Cover of Cotswold Homes Magazine
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07/03
Exhilarating New Collection by Anna Razumovskaya
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23/02
Come Together - Todd White's new collection
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20/02
Christian Hook photo shoot featured in Financial Times ‘How To Spend It’ magazine
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17/02
Stunning New Collection from Mark Spain
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16/02
SHERREE VALENTINE DAINES PAINTS LIVE
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06/02
Toby Mulligan makes his first appearance at Clarendon Mayfair
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03/02
Enchanting New Sculpture Collection by April Shepherd
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26/01
New Spring Collection by Danielle O Connor Akiyama
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25/01
New for 2017 The Gallery Guide
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15/12
Sherree Valentine-Daines Painting of Her Majesty the Queen
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05/12
John Waterhouse comes to Marlow
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08/11
Feel the Pasion with Fabian Perez
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07/11
Is Football an art form
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18/10
New from Sherree Valentine Daines
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26/09
A Powerful Collection from Jack Vettriano
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15/06
Champagne and Sherree
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14/06
The New Clarendon Fine Art Magazine
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03/06
Powerful New Collection from Fabian Perez
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16/05
Sherree Valentine Daines has just returned from Monaco
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06/05
Clarendon Stow-on-the-Wold Now Open
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03/05
The Duke of York Unveils Michael Speller's Stunning New Bronze
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13/04
Christian Hooks emotional tribute to Liverpool
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18/03
New Clarendon Fine Art gallery Coming Soon
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17/03
Christian Hook Exhibition onboard the Queen Elizabeth
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06/01
6 Month Anniversary Celebration Evening
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09/10
Christian Hook portrait cited as a ‘masterpiece’
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07/10
Watch Christian Hook on Sky Arts here
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15/07
Now Open - Clarendon Cobham!
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14/07
Clarendon's Inaugural Collection of Editions - Ecuestre
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26/05
The Three Queens by David Porteous-Butler commemorating Cunard´s 175th Anniversary
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22/04
New from Sherree Valentine Daines this spring
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03/04
Now Open - Clarendon Fine Art
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31/03
Sherree Valentine Daines – a celebration
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20/03
British Artist David Porteous-Butler on board Queen Mary 2
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24/12
Christian Hoook winner of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014
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04/11
Christian Hoook in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014
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04/11
New Works by Jeffrey Pratt
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26/09
Welcome to Dover Street Victoria Beckham
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15/09
Carl Payne A master of modern sculpture
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27/05
Major L.S. Lowry Exhibition
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07/05
2014 Mayfair exhibition for Sherree
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24/03
The Art of Icons
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03/03
Love Letters from Danielle
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07/02
John Lowrie Morrison at Clarendon
Modern Masters Spotlight - Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali will be the subject of a major exhibition at the Royal Academy in October this year exploring his artistic relationship with Marcel Duchamp, the father of conceptual art. In anticipation of this groundbreaking show we are delighted to announce that we have recently acquired the complete set of Dali’s Retrospective, a portfolio of four lithographs published in 1978, each numbered and signed in pencil by Salvador Dali.
The portfolio includes ‘The Flowering of Inspiration’ (Gala en fleurs), a stunning image after the original watercolour painted in 1978. At the centre of the composition stands the sensuous figure of one of Dalí’s flower-headed women. This figure is among the artist’s most memorable characters, appearing in a number of significant compositions throughout his oeuvre including Femme à la tête de roses and Femmes aux têtes de fleurs retrouvant sur la plage la dépouille d’un piano à queue of 1936. Dalí brought this striking image to life in a collaboration with the artist Sheila Legge staged at the Burlington Galleries in London for the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition. Time magazine reported that the, "[h]ighlight of the exhibition was artist Salvador Dali's living design, Phantom of Sex Appeal, for which artist Sheila Legge solemnly glided through the crowded, stuffy gallery in a tight white satin gown, her head in a wire cage covered with pink paper rosebuds" (quoted in "Art: Phantom," 29 June 1936). A photograph of Legge wearing this mask of flowers on Trafalgar Square was used for the cover of the Surrealist Bulletin in 1936.
The Flowering of Inspiration (Gala en fleurs), portrays a curvaceous phantom-like woman clothed in a loosely draped gown, her head replaced by a bouquet of bright blooms. The title of the work The Flowering of Inspiration, or alternatively, Gala en fleurs, reveals that the identity of this figure is the artist's wife and muse, Gala. The image has a still, dream-like atmosphere, as if we are viewing a moment taken directly from Dali’s unconscious. Dreams were of course vital to Dali’s practice. The Milanese critic Franco Passoni remarked that for Dalí “painting is an adventure into dream and can exist and represent itself only in this form" (quoted in "Dalí in the Third Dimension," Dalí Sculptor, Dalí Illustrator, exh. cat., The Stratton Foundation, Milan, 1989, p. 108).
To view our selection of artwork by Salvador Dali please contact a Clarendon Fine Art gallery.