Unbound
1933
by DALI, Salvador
1933. Unbound. Fine. Broadside. Yellow quarto sheet, printed recto only. Folded twice and with a very tiny stain, else fine. A statement prepared by Salvador Dali before his arrival in New York in anticipation of his first solo exhibition at the Lucien Levy Gallery from November 21 to December 8, 1933. The statement quotes fellow surrealist (and later antagonist) Andre Breton, includes Dali's denial as to the meaning of his works: "I never have the slightest idea what my pictures mean"; how after painting his wife one autumn afternoon he was "finally able to attain images sufficiently lucid and ‘appetizing' for exhibition in New York"; and ending with (truncated)