Salvador Dalí
Lima de los dientes (Hunting for Teeth), Plate 51

Lima de los dientes (Hunting for Teeth), Plate 51

© 2015 Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Lima de los dientes (Hunting for Teeth), Plate 51
Lima de los dientes (Hunting for Teeth), Plate 51
ArtistSpanish, 1904–1989
ArtistSpanish, 1746–1828
CultureSpanish
Titles
  • Lima de los dientes (Hunting for Teeth), Plate 51
  • after Se repulen (They Spruce Themselves Up) from Los Caprichos (The Caprices)
Date1977
PlaceSpain
MediumEtching and aquatint on paper, edition 48/200
DimensionsPlate: 7 1/16 × 5 in. (17.9 × 12.7 cm)
 Sheet: 17 5/8 × 12 3/8 in. (44.8 × 31.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky
Object number84.21
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"The Art of Exaggeration," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 July - 23 September, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
left below plate in pencil: 48/200
center below plate on sheet in pencil: Dali
printed bottom left on the plate: Goya, bottom right: Dali
printed below plate: Lima de los dientes; top right above plate: 51
Catalogue raisonnéMichler-Löpsinger 898; Field 77-3

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