"The backdrop constitutes the central and monumental element of this set imagined by Salvador Dali. Over nine metres high and nearly eighteen metres wide, it unfolds a landscape that is at once mysterious and dreamlike, crossed by mythological, artistic and psychoanalytical references."
"Dali wrote the libretto, a Freudian flight of fantasy wherein King Ludwig II of Bavaria encounters Venus in the form of a fish-headed mermaid and then a dragon. He stabs the goddess, and she splashes him with her libidinous poison which drives him mad."
The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, has acquired a unique assemblage from a theatrical set designed by Salvador Dali for a 1939 ballet. The auction lot includes the largest work of art by Dali, a backdrop curtain, along with four friezes and four wings, totaling 13 canvases. This set was created for the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo's production of Venusberg, featuring a surreal libretto by Dali. The backdrop, nearly 30 feet high and 59 feet wide, presents a dreamlike landscape with mythological and psychoanalytical references.
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