Elisabeth Kley

Submitted by Elizabeth Kley on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 21:43
Title of Work: 
Dali with Rosette
Date: 
2000
Medium: 
Ink on Japanese paper
Dimensions: 
24" x 18"

This drawing was exhibited in "Your Humble Servant the Genius," a 2001 two person exhibit by Elisabeth Kley and Rob Wynne on the subject of Salvador Dali and flies at Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery. The show included 10 drawings of Salvador Dali by Elisabeth Kley and a series of text thread drawings, hand printed fly wallpaper and a ceramic fly by Rob Wynne. This is the complete text of the thread drawings, taken from Dali's writing:
I adore flies. I am only happy in the sun naked and covered with flies. I only love the very cleanest flies. I cannot bear the dirty city fly, or even the village fly with its swollen belly yellow as mayonnaise, its black wings that look as if they had been dipped in some lugubrious necrophiliac mascara. I love the very cleanest flies, super gay, dressed in little gray alpaca suits from Balenciaga, glittering like a dry rainbow.

 

Approximate Market Value: 
$3000