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LOT 245

Lot 245

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Lot 245 Details
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), Spanish

HEAVEN CANTO 24 (ONE PLATE FROM LA DIVINA COMMEDIA) [FIELD, ILLUSTRATED PAGE 198]

Colour wood engraving on BFK Rives wove watermarked paper after watercolors by Dali from the years 1951-1960; signed and numbered 97/150 in blue crayon to margin
Image/Sheet 9.5" x 7.25" — 24.1 x 18.4 cm.; 13" x 10.25" — 33 x 26 cm.

Estimate $500-$700

Realised: $540
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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
  • Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
  • Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Provenance:

Galerie Dresdnere, Toronto as “Elation” Inventory no. 6862 to gallery label verso

Literature:

Albert Field, The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali, Brana Fine Art, 1996, p. 192

Note:

Field notes that in New York City, Dali signed 150 sets of prints in coloured pencils: red for Hell, purple for Purgatory, and blue for Paradise.  Dali began signing in the window of the F.A.R. Gallery and later at the St. Regis Hotel.  Field continues that Abe Lublin provided the Collectors Guild in New York City with 150 sets which Dali had signed in these three colours. 

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