Lot 182
  • 182

Dalí, Salvador -- Miguel de Cervantes

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Dalí, Salvador -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • Don Quichotte de la Manche. Paris, Joseph Foret, 1957.
  • ink on paper
"Les lithographies du siècle", selon Dalí.

In-folio (410 x 325 mm). En feuilles, sous chemise rempliée imprimée, chemise et étui de toile bleue. Etui passé.



12 lithographies originales de Salvador Dalí, dont 3 sur double page.



Un des 118 exemplaires sur vélin de Rives B.F.K pur fil (n° 168).



"Bien que réalisant pour la première fois de sa carrière des lithographies, Dalí a utilisé pour ce livre les nouvelles techniques du procédé lithographique, et, ce sur des "schistes calcaires", des pierres qui ont plus de 135 millions d'années" (Dalí et les Livres, sous la dir. d'Ed. Fornés, p. 110).



[On joint :]
Histoire d’un grand livre : Don Quichotte illustré par Dalí. Joseph Foret, 1957. Prospectus expliquant rien de moins "Pourquoi, malgré moi, les lithographies de mon Quichotte seront les lithographies du siècle".



Références : Michler et Löpsinger, Salvador Dali, Catalogue raisonné of Prints, II, 1001-1012.

Condition

Etui passé.
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