Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Title: The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac – Cancer
Date: 1967
Accession #: 2006.3.3
Medium: Color lithograph on Arches paper
Dimensions: sheet: 28 1/2 x 20 1/4 in., image: 25 1/4 x 18 1/2 in.
Acquired by: Bob & Barbara Woodward
About the Artwork: A person belonging to the zodiac sign Cancer, is bursting with emotion. Nicolas Sokoloff, author of The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, which Salvador Dali illustrated in 1967, writes that to a Cancer, “…action is a thousand times less essential than emotion.” Creativity and imagination surge through the veins of people with this sign, as it is the only way to get things done in their minds. (from: Sokoloff, Nicolas. The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac. Paris: Trois Anges, 1969. p. 22. Print.)