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Raise your hand if you love going to the dentist. Well, imagine being one. The hours on your feet, the …
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Raise your hand if you love going to the dentist. Well, imagine being one. The hours on your feet, the aroma of your patients’ ailing teeth, their complaints about their wife/kids/mother-in-law/politics—and their unbearable pain, ad infinitum. Oh, and the sameness of the problems you are asked to solve day in and day out in the endless battle against dental decay. Brain cell death could be an occupational hazard. Unless you have imagination.
The artist of this wonderfully surreal original lithograph, David Solot (1909-1985), was a French dentist, whose imagination conjured up an intimidating world of prancing, dancing extraction forceps—those things designed to yank out your back teeth.
Already trained, the young dentist was captured during WW II by the Nazis and detained as a prisoner of war in Pithiviers France. There he befriended a group of artists among his fellow detainees. While interned, they helped Solot discover his latent passion of painting, as noted on this work’s verso. Post war and home again, Dr. Solot continued his dental practice but let his imagination fly by painting in his free time. Among his visions were the fearsome forceps as circus acrobats, as in this 1950 lithograph, part of suite of eight that depicted these alien-looking tools as dancers, as combatants or jazz musicians. Then there’s Don Quixote, a toreador vs a molar bull, plus one that’s really off the charts, namely “The Revolt of the Molars” depicting masses of extracted molars that have had enough. They’re ganging up to pull the hangman’s ropes. Terrified forceps huddle together watching and awaiting their fate—just in case you’ve ever wondered what our teeth really get up to after they leave us.
Signature (in pencil): Bottom right (photo# 7). Inscription bottom left: undecipherable (photo #8). Image size: 13.25”h x 10.25”w.
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- Dimensions
- 19ʺW × 1ʺD × 23ʺH
- Styles
- French
- Surrealism
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- 1950s
- Country of Origin
- France
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Lithograph
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Dove Gray
- Condition Notes
- Condition commensurate with age and use. Some detail photos have reflections on the glass surface; these are not part of … moreCondition commensurate with age and use. Some detail photos have reflections on the glass surface; these are not part of the artwork. Please review all photos. less
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