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The Bird Man
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali
Price on Request
Spanish (1904–1989)
- Date: 1972
- Bronze Sculpture, signature inscribed
- Edition of 250
- Size: 18 in. (45.72 cm) tall
- Reference: Dali Sculptures & Objects: The Hard and the Soft" by Descharnes, page 119
about The Bird Man
The theme of the bird man comes from antiquity, In ancient Egypt, he appeared as Horus, a god with a man's body and the head of a falcon.
[...] The bird man theme appared in Dalis oeuvre already in 1947 in, Les Perroquets toreadors. This work is in reality a rerouting of l'Antinous from the Belvedere gardens of the Vatican in Rome. Antinous, a young Bythinian Greek who drowned himself in the Nile, was a slave and later a favorite of the Empereor Hadrian. - About the sculpture from Sculptures & Objects Dali by Robert & Nicolas Descharnes