Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Title: The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac – Taurus
Date: 1967
Accession #: 2006.3.6
Medium: Color lithograph on Arches paper
Dimensions: sheet: 28 1/2 x 20 1/4 in., image: 25 1/4 x 18 3/4 in.
Acquired by: Bob & Barbara Woodward
About the Artwork: A Taurus may be greedy, but they are stubborn and hard workers, according to Nicolas Sokoloff, author of The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac in which Salvador Dali illustrated in 1967. Sokoloff writes that, “When [a Taurus] does succeed, he easily reaches a simple happiness which to him is like a wise philosophy…” (from: Sokoloff, Nicolas. The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac. Paris: Trois Anges, 1969. p.42. Print.)