About this artwork
Disembodied green hands with gently pointed magenta fingernails and dark brown veins float across a fractured white ground in Salvador Dalí’s Leaf Hands design for Schiffer Prints. In the mid-twentieth century, Schiffer, a division of Mil-Art Company, Inc., commissioned artists, such as Dalí, Edward Wormley, and Ray Eames, to produce designs for fabrics, expecting to market them to clients interested in a modernist aesthetic for their homes. Dalí found this design process fruitful and went on to use the leaf hands motif for brooches, which were cast in eighteen-carat gold and feature red enamel fingernails.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Artists
- Salvador Dalí (Designer) , Schiffer Prints (Manufacturer)
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Title
- Leaf Hands
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Places
- United States (Object made in), North and Central America (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1949
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Medium
- Cotton and rayon, plain weave; screen printed with vat-dyes
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Inscriptions
- 'Leaf Hands' by Salvador Dali, Vat Dye hand Print Schiffer Prints
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Dimensions
- 195.8 × 123.4 cm (77 1/8 × 48 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. John Farwell III Endowment
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Reference Number
- 2018.210
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