Original etching by Salvador Dali, titled "Birth of Venus" Pierre Argillet Collection
Signed and numbered 11/150. dated and signed in the back by Frank Hunter by Salvador Dali Archives

Dali illustrated Mythology by drawing very closely upon the symbolism of the ancient Greek legends. Using what he called ‘hasard objectif” (the meaningful manifestation of chance), he would often start with an abstract smudge, created in a single motion, and he developed his theme from this sign of Fate, like the Puthia of Delphi who interpreted the Oracle from the smoke coming out of the cave