This series of 8 illustrations by Salvador Dali, based on Mao Tse Tung’s poems, was created in 1967, but nder the control of the Chinese embassy in Paris, because rights were not free at that time. After a few months and tired of having to constantly submit his illustrations to the embassy to pass censorship, Dalí engraved a portrait bust of Mao without the head. To the ambassador of China who then asked Dalí why he had representeded the great helmsman thus, he replied not without malice: «Mao is a too important historical character to be represented in whole».

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