Nude

Series TitleApollonaire's "Petite Nues" in Poèmes Secrets

Artist Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904 - 1989)

Date1968

MediumEtching, engraving, and drypoint

DimensionsPlate: 4 5/8 × 3 1/2 inches (11.75 × 8.89 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/4 × 10 7/8 inches (37.47 × 27.62 cm)

Credit LineGift of Jack Freborg

Object numberF87-39

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Roundness of shape is typically associated with women’s bodies. In this print, Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí has composed a female figure entirely of circles, and then frames her within another series of circles. Dalí’s female figure is no ordinary woman. Seated in the grass with her flower-wreathed head in a heavenly realm, she is fertility and fecundity personified. She is the great mother: Mother Earth.

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