A Cover Work — Dalí's Ode to Elegance and Surrealist Wit

Few lithographs in Salvador Dalí's print catalogue carry the distinction of The Fashion Designer, a work of such singular visual authority that it was selected as the cover image for the Fields Catalog Raisonné, the definitive scholarly reference for Dalí's graphic works. Its inclusion on the cover is not incidental; it reflects the piece's status as one of the most compositionally resolved and thematically rich prints of his career.

In The Fashion Designer, Dalí channels his lifelong fascination with beauty, artifice, and the theatre of human appearance. The figure is rendered with the precise draftsmanship and dreamlike tension that define his finest lithographic work, poised between the real and the surreal, the decorative and the deeply psychological. It is a work that rewards sustained looking.

Provenance & Technical Details

• Medium: Original lithograph
• Sheet: 29" × 21"
• Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist
• Artist proof from an edition of 95 on Japon paper
• Printer: Dumas
• Publisher: Levine & Levine
• Reference: Field 80-6 | Michler & Lopsinger 1577

The Fields Catalog Raisonné cover featuring this work is shown in the accompanying images.