Federico García Lorca under a Painting by Salvador Dalí, Granada, 1925 — Fundación Federico García Lorca Postcard, c.1998

Postcard
Fundación Federico García Lorca, Granada
10.5 × 15 cm
Offset print on card stock
Issued c.1998

Black-and-white postcard reproducing the well-known 1925 photograph of Federico García Lorca seated in the family home in Granada beneath a painting gifted to him by Salvador Dalí. The image captures an early and intensely formative moment between the two figures, whose friendship in the 1920s moved fluidly between literature, painting, theatre, desire, collaboration, and emotional dependency.

The painting visible above Lorca was made and dedicated by Dalí during the years of their close relationship after meeting at Madrid’s Residencia de Estudiantes. Dalí would later describe Lorca as one of the most important emotional presences in his life, while Lorca’s writings and drawings from the period reveal a charged intellectual and personal attachment that continues to shape interpretations of both artists. The photograph quietly compresses that entire history into a domestic interior: poet below, gifted painting above, authorship suspended between friendship and projection.

Issued by the Fundación Federico García Lorca, the card functions less as a souvenir than as a small portable document of cultural mythology — literary history, queer subtext, modernism, and private exchange reduced to a reproducible printed surface.

Condition: Very good vintage condition. Light surface wear and minor age toning consistent with storage and handling.

Shipping and handling included.