Salvador DALI - Tour de France Cyclist, 1959, Etching

Jean Cocteau : Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) is a poet, graphic designer, draughtsman, playwright and french movie director. He is one of the major artists of the 20th century. He was the impresario of his time, the trend maker, the inspiration of many artists and put his personal touch in all his creations with a singular grace, an inexhausted originality and a rare intuition. Despite his literary works and artistic talents, Jean Cocteau has always insisted on the fact that he was above all a poet and that every work was petic. He let movies which had marked the century, as "Le Sang d'un poète" (A poet's blood), The Beauty and The beast, Orpheus, but also famous illustrations as "Le Livre blanc" (The white book).
Salvador Dali : Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is a surrealist painter, draughtsman, sculptuor, lithograph, writter, photographer from catalan origins. Born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, known as Salvador Dalí, Titled "Marqués de Dalí de Púbol" by the king of Spain in 1982. He is considered as one of the major figures of surrealism and most famous painters of the 20th century. His works are exhibited all over the world : Fundació Gala - Salvador Dalí, Museo Patio Herreriano,The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection,The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) in Spain. The Walker Art Center, The Dali Museum, The Broad Art Foundation, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, The Carnegie Museum of art, The National Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and The Washington in The US. The Kunsthaus Zurich and The KunstMuseum Bern in Switzerland. The Vancouver Art Gallery and The Museum of Fine-Arts in Canada. The "Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto" (Italy), Das Museum Folkwang and The Museum Ludwig (Köln) (Germany), The "Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian" (Portugal), The "Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma" (Finland), Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (Iran), The Modern Museum - Moderna Museet (Sweden), The "Centre Pompidou" - Museum of Modern Art (France), The Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), The Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice), The Tate Collection (UK), The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) (Australia) among many others...