Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Title: The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac – Pisces
Date: 1967
Accession #: 2006.3.13
Medium: Color lithograph on Arches paper
Dimensions: sheet: 28 1/2 x 20 1/4 in., image: 25 1/8 x 18 1/16 in.
Acquired by: Bob & Barbara Woodward
About the Artwork: Nicolas Sokoloff, author of The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, which Salvador Dali illustrated in 1967, writes that a person of Pisces origin lives for sensations and feelings. Pisces people are able to understand a person based on an expression they make or a sudden silence a person may exhibit. Sokoloff writes that a Pisces many lose connections with the real world because of their intense escapes into the world of sensations and dreams. Of the famous Pisces’s, Sokoloff mentions Michelangelo, Albert Einstein, and Victor Hugo. (from: Sokoloff, Nicolas. The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac. Paris: Trois Anges, 1969. Print.)