Salvador Dalí
Poems by Mao Zedong: Bust of Mao (Le Buste de Mao), 1967.
ML/Argillet #215; Fields # 67-1 A
Original drypoint etching with hand coloring on archival paper.
Hand-signed and numbered at the lower margins.
A certificate of authenticity is provided by the issuing authority.

Salvador Dalí’s Bust of Mao Zedong, also known as Le Buste de Mao, is a hand-colored graphic work from the artist’s 1967 Poèmes de Mao Tse-Tung suite. Created as part of a series of eight compositions inspired by the poetry of Mao Zedong, the work transforms an internationally recognizable political figure through Dalí’s unmistakable Surrealist imagination. When Argillet asked Dalí why his “Bust of Mao” was headless in a Chinese uniform, Dalí replied: “Well, the man is so tall that he didn’t fit on the page!”

Poems by Mao Zedong: Suite of 8 original etchings reworked in drypoint, published in 1967, 15 x 11 inches. Edition size: 1-150 signed and numbered on Arches and 1-95 on Japanese paper.

Salvador Dali – The Argillet Collection, Off The Wall Gallery, Houston, Texas.