Salvador Dali a Port Lligat

Germaine Marguerite de Coster

Germaine de Coster had been a printmaker and book designer for over four decades when she created this engraving of Salvador Dali's home in Port Lligat, Spain. Her sharp, stylized linework illustrates her ongoing pursuit of the Art Deco-era Precisionism genre, a style that established her place in the contemporary design world. De Coster was also known for her traditional Japanese-style ink drawings and more Impressionist landscapes, but her images of architecture and maritime engravings remain among her most recognized art works.

Salvador Dali's famous dwelling on the Costa Brava, situated on the coast of Catalonia, Spain, was originally an unassuming fishermans hut, transformed by Dali and his longtime muse Gala in the 1930s and late 1940s into a labrynthine mansion that surrounds the "Salo de l'Ossa" - the Hall of the Bear. It is now a museum and tourist destination. Here, de Costa depicts it in a series of sharp, almost Cubist angles juxtaposed against the hills of coastal Catalonia and the Mediterranean Sea.