Original drypoint etching with stencil from the series “La Fontaine’s Bestiary Dalinized”

Title: “The Crow and the Fox”

Hand-signed by Salvador Dalí and numbered: LXXXIX/CXX (89/120)

Luxury edition of 120 copies

Printed on Vélin Richard de Bas paper in 1974

Size: 73 x 93 cm

Price: €2’500

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Artwork Essay

In this surreal interpretation of La Fontaine’s fable “The Crow and the Fox”, Salvador Dalí transforms a simple moral lesson into a psychological and symbolic dreamscape. The proud crow perches high on a branch, holding in its beak a melting piece of cheese. Below, the fox gazes up, her posture poised and manipulative, with a cunning smile.

The fox flatters the crow until it open its mouth and drops the cheese. Dalí captures this pivotal moment of ego meeting deception. Once the fox gets the cheese, she says: “Dear Sir, let this be a lesson: all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen.” This surrealist landscape blurs the lines between animal and human psychology, grounding this work deeply in the surrealist tradition.