"L'Oeil de Pâques" (The Easter Eye")

A French Pate De Verre Sculpture "L'Oeil de Pâques" (The Easter Eye). by, Daum and designed by, Salvador Dali of cobalt blue eggs some melting and one with a glass eye. The sculpture is numbered 88 out of an edition of only 150 that were produced. The sculpture is impressed "DAUM" and further numbered 38/150" and further signed "SDali 68".  circa 1969. Also included is a letter of authenticity by DAUM.

Measurements:
height: 9.8 in. x width: 7 in. x depth: 5.25 in.

Provenance: 
Private French Collection

Literature:
R. & N. Descharnes Salvador Dali Sculptures & Objects. Eccart. Ref.325, page 130.

Notes: 
Pate De Verre Glass (French, “glass paste”) A material produced by grinding glass into a fine powder, adding a binder to create a paste, and adding a fluxing medium to facilitate melting. The paste is brushed or tamped into a mold, dried, and fused by firing. After annealing, the object is removed from the mold and finished.

In 1968, Jacques Daum, whose family glassworks was founded in 1878, met with Salvador Dalí in Cadaqués, Spain, to suggest a collaboration in imagining sculptures in pate de verre (Daum’s unique proprietary technique.) Dalí declared,”Pate de verre is truly a Dalinian material. Hence I have used it to create masterpieces; I’m delighted by this new material, which has both the molecular elasticity of a snail and the consistency of the Perpignan train station.” Dalí found that glass, the pate de verre, offered the perfect medium for the "expression of metamorphosis" that, according to Dalí, is his surrealist perception of reality. Daum and Dali’s collaboration lasted over 20 years. These rarely displayed pieces are striking manifestations of Dali’s aesthetic, made real in three dimensions. The Daum collection allows us to see the genius of Dalí through the translucency of sculptures modeled from colored glass.