Castor & Pollux Candlesticks
Design Date 1975
Designer Salvador Dalí (1904-1989, Spanish)
Media chrome-plated bronze
Dimensions Castor: 11 7/8 x 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, Pollux: 10 3/8 x 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches
Salvador Dalí is best known for his surreal paintings like Persistence of Memory, which features melting clocks. A different kind of melting (that of candle wax) is associated with the chrome plated bronze candlesticks Castor and Pollux, named for twin brothers of Greek myth. The candlesticks are in a modern cubist style and are signed by Dalí.
ON VIEW in Art Deco Gallery 6
Markings Lower side impressed,"CASTOR" or "POLLUX" and "488/2000" with "Salvador Dalí" signature on adjacent side
Credit Line Collection Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
Accession Number 2007.0644
