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Le Chat aux moustaches vinicoles (pour Les Vins de Gala) (The Cat with the Wine-loving Whiskers [for The Wines of Gala]), 1976–77 'circa'
Gouache and collage on photographic print mounted on card73 by 52.4 cm (28¾ by 20⅝ in.)68948Further images
Executed circa 1976–77. This work is accompanied by a copy of a certificate of authenticity issued and signed by Nicolas and Olivier Descharnes, dated February 22, 2022. In this work,...Executed circa 1976–77. This work is accompanied by a copy of a certificate of authenticity issued and signed by Nicolas and Olivier Descharnes, dated February 22, 2022.
In this work, Dalí combines his painting Phosphène de Laporte (circa 1932) and William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Les Oréades (1902) with a photograph of a white Persian cat with heterochromia. He transforms the cat’s whiskers into fountains of wine that cascade into the chalices of the nymphs and satyrs. Three humanoid heads and one catlike figure in the upper left emerge from a yellow cloud.
The Cat with the Wine-loving Whiskers
The cat is in the middle of the land of death
Formed by each of its whiskers.
Here flow mellifluously the wines of propeller-cats
These propellor and anti-propellor wines which make up
The aphrodisiac whirlwind of Aphrodite’s goose pimples.
It is the unique chill that the sybarite of wines
Feels in his spine
When he has gulped them down. Gulp. glug. Glug. Glug. Glug...
— Salvador Dalí, Les Vins de Gala, 1977
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