Artist: Salvador Dalí

Title: Apparatus and Hand

Medium: Chromolithograph after the 1927 painting

Sheet: 12.6 × 9.6 in

Signature: Signed artist proof

Original painting: Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

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About This Work

Apparatus and Hand is one of Dalí's earliest and most psychologically charged compositions, painted in 1927 — the year before he joined the Surrealist movement in Paris and just as his mature visual language was crystallising. The painting now resides permanently in the Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, the largest collection of Dalí's work outside of Europe, making it among the most institutionally significant works of his early career.

The image is a fever dream of disembodied forms: a severed hand, mechanical apparatus, and biomorphic shapes arranged against a barren landscape — prefiguring the hallucinatory precision that would define his Surrealist masterworks of the 1930s. This chromolithograph reproduces the painting with exceptional fidelity, and as a signed artist proof — impressions pulled outside the numbered edition for the artist's personal use and approval — it carries a distinction above standard edition prints.

Technique

Chromolithography — multi-stone colour lithography — was the medium of choice for high-fidelity fine art reproduction in the twentieth century, capable of rendering the full tonal and chromatic complexity of an oil painting. This impression captures the unsettling depth and surface tension of Dalí's original with remarkable accuracy.

Provenance & Significance

After the 1927 painting in the permanent collection of the Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida. Signed artist proof — outside the numbered edition, bearing the artist's personal signature.

Condition & Framing

Presented in excellent condition. Please allow up to 3 weeks for fulfillment. Framing available — contact us to discuss options.