Dalí's ballet: "le tumulte orageux et visceral"
Autograph manuscript signed ("Salvador Dalí").
Folio (378 x 250 mm). 2 pp. In French.
€ 22,500.00
Dalí's concept statement for "Tristan Fou", in the artist's own hand. In 1938, Salvador Dalí composed "Tristan Fou / Espectacle paranoiaque" as a reinterpretation of Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde". Based on the medieval tragic romance of Tristan and Isolde, Dalí's ballet, according to his manuscript, featured music by R. Wagner and "Federic Nietche", choreography by Leonide Massime, costumes by his longtime collaborator Elsa Schiaparelli, and scenery by Dalí himself, inspired by the paintings of Jean-Francois Millet.
The concept statement here describes Dalí's design of a new myth incorporating the modern sciences, such as psychoanalysis and morphology, shaped by the symbolism of the praying mantis and based upon Millet's painting "l'Angélus". Dalí closes this manuscript: "Tristan Fou c'est le mythe heroique et total qui se pose chaque fois qu'un homme et une femme dressent l'un face l'autre le tumulte orageux et visceral de toute la confuse obscurite vegetale et marecageuse, de leur biologie frenetique. La premiere partie du spectacle n'a aucun rapport avec Wagner il sont uniquement a situer le developmement argumental [!]. La segonde partie au contraire n'est que l'exaltation du 'sublime Wagnerien'".
Small ink stain to lower right corner of each leaf; very gentle toning and soiling. In very good condition.
