Dali, SalvadorABAA
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réf. 140937150London: Peter Owens 1973. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. First English edition. One of a limited 100 copies signed by Salvador Dali; this copy is unnumbered and out of series. Publisher's gilt stamped vellum and marbled paper covered boards. Near Fine in Near Fine slipcase lacking 20-page Postface booklet. Slight yellowing to vellum and light wear at joints slipcase slightly marked and with one joint tender. The artist's only novel signed. Peter Owens unknown books
1933réf. 5493171933. Unbound. Fine. Broadside. Yellow quarto sheet printed recto only. Folded twice and with a very tiny stain else fine. A statement prepared by Salvador Dali before his arrival in New York in anticipation of his first solo exhibition at the Lucien Levy Gallery from November 21 to December 8 1933. The statement quotes fellow surrealist and later antagonist Andre Breton includes Dali's denial as to the meaning of his works: "I never have the slightest idea what my pictures mean"; how after painting his wife one autumn afternoon he was "finally able to attain images sufficiently lucid and 'appetizing' for exhibition in New York"; and ending with a final question; "New York: why why did you erect my statue long ago long before I was born higher than another more desperate than another" Confusion about this statement abounds with some claiming the broadside was distributed at the 1939 World's Fair where Dali had a pavilion or later in 1941 calling it a response to criticism from a statement by Breton. Our research - and Dali's own printed words "I have never been to America" - supports Dali biographer Ian Gibson's belief that this broadside was issued in late 1933 as advance publicity for the painter's first solo American exhibition close on the heels of increased interest in the artist following the Surrealist show the year before that debut his icon painting The Persistence of Memory. Rare. OCLC locates two copies and we have located at third the Queen's Public Library in New York. unknown books
1960réf. SAD0011960 Original 10 ¼" x 13" wood engraving in a 20 ¼" x 23" frame. Signed by Dalí in red and signed again in pencil. Original color wood engraving of the boatman Charon crossing the Acheron printed on BFK Rives paper with a deckled bottom edge blindstamp of the editor J. Estrade of Les Heures Claires to lower left matted in white and in a black frame. Fine. Overall a striking work by the great Spanish artist. In 1951 the Italian government commissioned Salvador Dalí to create 101 watercolor illustrations for Dante's The Divine Comedy to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the great Italian author's birth. The decision to hire Dalí who was Spanish and a self-proclaimed "Surrealist void of all moral values" was controversial and the government eventually dropped the commission. Nevertheless Dalí deeply inspired by Dante's masterpiece continued creating watercolors finally completing the project in 1959. Dalí struck a deal with his friend French publisher Joseph Forêt of Les Heures Claires to turn the watercolors into engravings for a lavish illustrated edition of The Divine Comedy. Two master engravers spent five years 1959 - 1964 reproducing the watercolors into wood engravings a process that required roughly 3500 wood blocks around 35 for each print. Three limited editions of Dalí's illustrated version of the Divine Comedy were ultimately released between 1960 and 1974: 4765 in French 3188 in Italian and 1000 in German. In all the project took more than a decade and is now recognized as one of Dalí's most towering achievements. Salvador Dalí 1904 - 1989 was an influential Spanish surrealist artist best known for paintings including The Persistence of Memory 1931 The Elephants 1948 and Cabaret Scene 1922. Dalí illustrated a number of famous literary works throughout his career including Dante's The Divine Comedy Cervantes' Don Quixote Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Shakespeare's Macbeth. The Divine Comedy Dante's allegorical masterpiece describes Dante's journey with the poet Virgil through Hell Purgatory and Heaven. The narrative poem is regarded as one of the greatest works of literature and helped standardize the Italian language as we know it today. Influential modernist poet T.S. Eliot wrote in an essay "Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them; there is no third." Inferno Canto III opens with an inscription on the gates of hell: "Abandon all hope ye who enter." Dante and Virgil pass through the gate and encounter the boatman Charon who ferries souls to the opposite shore. . Fine. Illus. by Dalí Salvador. Lithograph. unknown books
réf. 23567London: Peter Owen 1973. Hardcover. Orig. quarter vellum and marbled boards spine gilt lettered. Fine in fine publisher's red cloth slipcase. Dali Salvador. 318 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition copy 61 of 100 signed by Dali. Laid in with the 19-pp. pamphlet “Postface to Hidden Faces” comprising of “Objective Chance” and “Reverie”. His first and only novel. Hidden Faces was originally written in French in 1943 two years after Dali had published his autobiography to great success. Chevalier a professor at Berkeley University spent several weeks with Dalí translating directly into English as Dalí wrote. The novel was completed in two weeks on the estate of the Marquis de Cuevas in Franconia a mansion in the mountains of New Hampshire next to the Canadian border. Numerous black and white reproductions of paintings after Dali. Peter Owen hardcover books
réf. 5054Dali's Mustache Salvador Dali & Philippe Halsman Signed "Dali" with Original Drawing of an ant expanding across inside cover to first end paper. Full title "Dali's Mustache: A Photographic Interview by Salvador Dali and Philippe Halsman" New York Simon and Schuster 1954. Halsman 1906-79. Dali ends the Preface about his view of his mustache "Some day perhaps one will discover a truth almost as strange as this mustache - namely that Salvador Dali was possibly also a painter." Halsman captioned photographs of Dali throughout interspersed with bold face questions some obvious "What is beauty" some comical "Dali What makes You Tick" Condition: Cover shows wear and chipping to boards and spine break to spine following two second page of preface with all pages in tact. unknown books
1933réf. 549298New York: Julien Levy Gallery 1933. Softcover. Near Fine. Program. Single sheet measuring 5½" x 12½". Purplish-pink foil on one side and white on the other printed in black folded twice to form a 5½" x 4¼" pamphlet with two illustrations. Near fine with crease to lower right corner and light edgewear. An original program to Salvador Dalí's first solo New York exhibition held at the Julien Levy Gallery from November 21 to December 8 1933. The announcement includes a list of the 26 paintings on exhibit and includes two illustrations; one of those being Dali's iconic painting The Persistence of Memory which debuted only the year before at Levy's Surrealist Exposition alongside other notable artist such as Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp. Dali would embrace New York over the next decade staging a series of shows and attracting enormous attention with his works and outrageous persona cementing his place as one of the world's most influential artist of the 20th Century. Rare. OCLC locates no copies of this important program. Julien Levy Gallery unknown books
1942réf. 15601942. DALI Salvador. The Secret Life of Salvador Dali. 400 pp. illustrated throughout. 4to 258 x 190 mm. cloth and illustrated dust jacket in a new cloth folding box. New York: Dial 1942. With an elaborate double page inscription cum drawing by Dali. From the library of the photographer Arnold Crane with his signature on the front endpaper. hardcover books
réf. B-25-010007Dali Salvador - Malraux André. Geneva: Albert Skira 1973 First edition. Copy 22 of 150 from a total edition of 160 copies printed in Rive wove paper watermarked with Dali design. Signed by Salvador Dali André Malraux and Albert Skira on the justification page. The portfolio contains: 12 drypoints printed on sheep-skin parchment paper signed and numbered in pencil by Dali each collected in a Rive paper folder with captions inside; two etchings of which one in text and one full page; text in French index of prints colophon and justification page. Loose as published in original paper wrappers with dali's design collected in hard chemise with parchment and black morocco boards with black embossed design gilded title on the spine all guarded in matching black morocco slipcase Ref: Field 73-8 Albert Skira books
1972réf. 021298New York and Fribourg: Pamela Verlag and Transworld Art 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine case. Salvador Dali. Portfolio with loose sheets 12-1/4" x 17-1/2" laid in a paper cover and cloth portfolio lettered in silver on the backstrip as issued. Copy #26 of 150 with English text and 10 ORIGINAL DRYPOINT ENGRAVINGS in color image size 5" x 7-1/4" on 12-1/4" x 17-1/2" sheets each SIGNED by the illustrator. (Pamela Verlag) and (Transworld Art) hardcover books
1930réf. 2476Paris: Éditions Surréalistes 1930. First edition. 72 pp. Original aluminum foil paper wrappers covered by red tissue paper title printed in black on the cover. Unbound sheets as this variant was issued. Photo-lithographed portrait of Gala heliogravure frontispiece retouched with a burin and six heliographic plates. A bit of wear to the extremities else a beautiful copy of a very fragile production. Of an edition of 204 copies one of the very few on Rodingold vellum in sheets justified on the colophon by the Service de Presse stamp. With Dalí’s autograph dedication on the half-title “Hommage de l’auteur. Salvador Dali.” Laid in is the prière d’insérer announcement with text by André Breton and Paul Eluard. This issue of La Femme Visible is unbound sheets laid into the foil and red wrappers. For these few copies Dali apparently often added a simple autograph homage. The book did not meet with great success as Eluard reveals in a letter to Gala on January 27 1931: “La Femme visible a une presse immonde. Pourquoi Dali n’a-t-il pas mis dans ses dédicaces le nom des gens. Comme cela on n’en parlera pas ou en mal.” La Femme Visible is receiving dreadful publicity. Why didn’t Dali put people’s names in his dedications That way people won’t talk about it or talk about it badly. Georges Sebbag in his bibliography of Editions Surréalistes does not mention these press copies nor the printing of the book in sheets. One of Dalí’s earliest books containing four texts: “L’Âne Pourri” “La Chèvre Sanitaire” “L’Amour” and “Le Grand Masturbateur.” In these writings inspired by Freudian and post-Freudian theories Dalí’s aim is to upset the frontiers between dream and reality and to break down the convictions that form the basis of so-called “bourgeois values.” He later spoke of it as “a spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectification of delirious associations and delirious interpretations.” References: Michler and Löpsinger. Salvador Dalí: Catalogue Raisonné of Etchings and Mixed-Media Prints 1924-1980 no. 4. Cowling. The Magic Mirror. Dada and Surrealism from a Private Collection Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 1988 no. 92. Mundy ed. Surrealism: Desire Unbound. pp. 131-33; 148-49. Eluard. Letters to Gala 1989 trans. p. 98. Sebbag Les Editions Surréalistes 1993. pp. 63-64. Éditions Surréalistes unknown books
1969réf. 18586New York: Maecenas Press / Random House 1969. Limited Edition. Original wraps. Fine. Signed limited edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland featuring twelve illustrations with woodcuts and an original etching by Salvador Dalí. Folio 150pp 6. Full set measures 22" x 16" x 3.5". Portfolio of loose leaves held in brown cloth wraps. "Dalí" stamped in gilt on front cover. Leaves are gathered in signatures of 6 with each centerfold featuring an illustration. All in fine condition. Complete with twelve vibrant full-page color illustrations and one frontispiece etching. One of 2500 portfolios printed on Mandeure paper. This set is numbered 1860. Each portfolio features an original colored etching signed by the artist Salvador Dalí. Housed in the matching cloth clamshell title in gilt on orange morocco spine brown silk interior. Small orange stain to bottom right corner. Held shut with leather straps along fore-edge lacking one latch. Includes the publisher's original shipping box with the matching limitation number. A truly exceptional piece combining classic literature with modern art. Salvador Dalí 1904-1989 illustrated a number of limited edition works throughout his artistic career. In addition to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Dalí was commissioned to illustrate Macbeth 1946 Don Quixote De La Mancha 1946 The Divine Comedy 1960 Arabian Nights 1964 and The Bible 1967. Maecenas Press / Random House unknown books
