Salvador Dali, Lenfer Ix (Michler/Lpsinger 1039-1138; Field 189-200), La Divine Comdie, Woodcut

Condition: Pre-Owned

Woodcut in colors on vlin pur chiffon de Rives paper.

Paper size: 13 x 10.375 inches.

Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued.

Catalogue raisonn references: Dali?, Salvador, et al.

Salvador Dali?: Catalogue Raisonne? of Etchings and Mixed-Media Prints, 1924-1980.

Prestel, 1994, illustration 1039-1138.

Field, Albert, and Salvador Dali?.

The Official Catalogue of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali? Archives, 1996, illustration 189-200.

Condition: Very good/excellent, consistent with age.

Notes: From the folio, La Divine Comdie, 1963.

Published by ditions d'Art Les Heures Claires, Paris; rendered by Raymond Jacquet, Paris; printed by l'imprimerie M.

Jacquet, Paris, November 23, 1963.

This French-language edition of "La Divine Comdie" by Dante Alighieri in the translation by Julien Brizeux was entirely made in Paris.

It required fifty-five months of patient and assiduous work.

Started in April 1959, it was completed on November 23, 1963.

Two ateliers have attached their name to this monumental work: the printing works Jacquet and Daragnes.

The printing of the illustrations was carried out in Nbiolo in the M.

Jacquet printing company under the direction of Raymond Jacquet assisted by Jean Taricco and Paul Massin.

The pressers are Marcel Marsillac, Roger Fontaine, Claude Marsillac, Grard Favien, Francis Merat.

The engraving of the MMMD woods necessary for the exceptional reconstruction of Salvador Dal's hundred watercolors is the work of Raymond Jacquet with the collaboration of Jean Taricco.

The text composed by hand in Meridian Body Twenty by Madeleine Jacquet was drawn by l'imprimerie Daragnes.

Justification of the Draw: XV examples on vlin pur chiffon de Rives to which we have added by volume: an inked copper - a sequence of the line engraved on copper - a color suite of the illustrations - a decomposition of the colors of an illustration.

Numbered from I to XV; CL examples on vlin pur chiffon de Rives to which we have added: a sequence of the line engraved on copper - a color sequence of the illustrations - a decomposition of the colors of an illustration.

Numbered from XVI to CLXV; CCCL examples on vlin pur chiffon de Rives to which we have added: a color suite of the illustrations - a decomposition of the colors of an illustration.

Numbered from CLXVI to DXV; CCCL examples on vlin pur chiffon de Rives to which a decomposition of the colors of an illustration has been added. Numbered from DXVI to DCCCLXV; MMM examples on vlin pur chiffon de Rives, numbered from DCCCLXVI to IVDCCLXV.

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