Apollinaire Woman At The Fountain

MEDIUM: Copper Etching

MICHLER LOEPSINGER CATALOG: 198

FIELDS CATALOG: 67-108

DIMENSIONS: 15 x 11 inches

NUMBERED: 76/145 on Japon

Apollinaire: “The Secret Poems”
Dali’s initial plan was to illustrate a number of songs by Georges Brassens, shown with his guitar on the first etchings, who is singing is passion about the feminine body. However, the singer’s agent recommended so many changes, that Dali decided to shift theme.

Seeing in the plates a correlation with the 1914-1918 war, Pierre Argillet suggested that Dali illustrate instead the “Poèmes Secrets” by Apollinaire. From then on, the series took a more unconventional, more Surrealist turn, with compositions like “La Femme à l’Escargot”, “La Femme à la Fontaine” covered by giant ants, and “L’Homme au Tiroir”,