Salvador Dali: “Les Bêtes Sauvages dans le Désert” - from the collection of Dr. Edmund Klein. Email for price

Les Bêtes Sauvages Dans Le Desert (The Savage Beasts of the Desert) depicts a surreal desert scene. Throughout the composition, several diverse geographic elements that are typically unseen in a traditional desert are present, including mountain ranges, grassy plains, and even snowfall. The animal life, which includes a cheetah, snow fox, skunk, and desert fox, are scattered within the setting, thus enhancing the inconceivability of the desert setting they seem to naturally inhabit. Towards the background on either side of the painting, two equestrian figures are similarly posed; one colorfully detailed while the opposing is sketched in black. A heavenly glow radiates from the clouds and places focus on an abstractly formed rock with qualities similar to Dali’s classic gestural figures.

This artist proof was dedicated on April 30^th, 1976 to Dr. Edmund Klein, a skin doctor who treated Dali for a skin ailment in 1972. Enrique Sabater, Dali’s secretary from 1968-1981, wrote a message to Klein on the lower left-hand border that reads, “Mi mayor affecto y admiracíon (My greatest affection and admiration)”.