Pitxot Dali museum director explained that the table “Honey is sweeter than blood” refers to a sentence of Lídia de Cadaqués with expressing “the tendency of some to go against the blood (family) l opt to follow the spirit to illusions. ” “Dalí never stopped honey for the path of blood,” said Mercouri.
Pitxot Antoni, Director of the Dalí Museum, said that this box has a clear influence of Picasso, and painted it just after a visit to Paris, where the latter showed a lot of pictures with amputees bodies and severed heads. “It’s the first time that headless bodies appear in Dali’s works.”
In the analysis of the table include a rotting donkey, which makes clear reference to Buñuel; a forest of equipment which in the final work is much more lush, and a gelatinous element represents Pitxot Dali explained the feeling to spend much time paddling in the sun in Cadaqués and lose sight of the world.
Pitxot has detailed forest equipment refers to elements with which the artist played as a child: “They’re kind of nail with a washer at the tip, and was used on the beach so as not to escape the umbrellas, but after children played a throw to see if stuck in the sand or not. “
The museum director explained that Dalí wanted to do in the courtyard of the museum a small maze with these devices. Painting is also “very neat” technically, said Mercouri, who has highlighted the gray and blue used by the artist, optical, almost transparent, and the precise geometry that characterizes him.
The study and the work of “Honey is sweeter than blood” is the work that has cost the Dalí Foundation, but on February 11 sold a portrait of Paul Eluard by almost 16 million euros at auction Sotheby’s in London, a figure that far exceeds its appraised value and three times the world record of the painter. “We were not surprised. Dalí’s work will Subienda or” he pointed Aguer, who admitted that they were also interested in buying, but the acquisition prevailed Foundation study.