Artist: Salvador Dalí
Title: L'Ouroboros
Medium: Drypoint, lithograph and screenprint in corlors with collage
Serie: L' "Alchimie des Philosophes"
Year: 1976
Edition: EA/XXX
Sizes: 77,3 x 57,4 cm
Bibliograph/Published: Michler & Löpsinger 843
Signature: Signed on pencil center
Condition: original conditions
this work is sold unframed

The ouroboros or uroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. The ouroboros entered Western tradition via ancient Egyptian iconography and the Greek magical tradition. It was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and most notably in alchemy