Salvador Dali Dance of Time Golden Brown with Vermeil Trim Visconti Fountain Pen
This pen is lovingly used and does not come with box or papers. It comes with a Steel Fine nib. It fills via cartridge converter (included).
Salvador Dali’s paintings and artwork inspired Visconti to create a Salvador Dali fountain pen. The inspiration is taken from  images created by Salvador DalÃ, “The Dance of Time I“©, and “The Profile of Time.“©. The latter inspired  a beautiful pen stand. Both of these images highlight DalÃ’s obsession and pre-occupation with his “melting” clock.
The beginning of 2013 marked the inauguration of a Salvador Dalà exhibition in one of Florence’s finest buildings, the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, and so it came almost naturally to Visconti to create a surrealist pen dedicated to the artist.
Visconti’s intention was not merely to revive Surrealist imagery but to encapsulate DalÃ’s Surrealist endeavour in a space as small as the surface of a pen. The Visconti “The Dance of Time I”© imitates and embodies a number of DalÃ’s most important and widely loved themes, including:
The “melting” clock is the best known and best loved of all of DalÃ’s iconoclastic images; the omnipresent fluidity of time is shown not only as movement but almost as though it was a dance to the rhythm of the universe. Universal time knows no bounds; we should remember that time, as it is generally understood, is a concept devised by man. DalÃ’s time, on the other hand, is perpetual, it “moves forward in a dance” without ever stopping either for man or for history, indeed not even for the cosmos. The image depicts DalÃ’s deeply fantastical relationship with time, his perception of the limitations that it enforces on us and the importance that the artist assigned to memory.
The regular edition of the collection is what is for sale here. These fountain pens feature the Melting Clock over the iconic bridge clip, and Salvador Dali’s signature. The MSRP on this pen in either Gold or Silver trim is $289
