Salvador Dali Statue Tristan and Isolde Ballet (1944)

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This Parastone three-dimensional resin representation features Salvador Dali Statue Tristan and Isolde Ballet (1944). The artwork depicts the Spanish surrealist painter's vision of the 12th-century legend of the adulterous love affair between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult (or Isolde). Dali painted it while collaborating with choreographer Leonide Massine for the ballet "Mad Tristan," inspired by Wagner's opera "Tristan and Isolde." He also designed the sets and costumes. The figures of Tristan and Isolde were painted by Salvador Dalí in 1944 as the backdrop for a ballet, on the stage of the International Theater in New York. The tale of this ballet, for which Dali wrote the libretto, began before the war. At that time that title was Mad Tristan and was to be performed in Paris. The war prevented the production in Paris, and the spectacle was brought to New York. "As with everything else," Dali writes in The Secret Life, "my Mad Tristan, which was to have been my most successful theatrical venture, could not be given; so it became Venusberg and finally Bacchanale, which is the definitive version." The ballet is favorable ground for Dali to put his paranoiac-critical method into practice with happy results. Unfortunately, most of the time his directions were not followed exactly in the production of the scenery and staging; his ideas often seemed too difficult to execute in actual practice, they were too costly, and they could not be accepted under the security rules normally applied to theaters. More details Salvador Dali Statue Tristan and Isolde Ballet (1944):