Verona, Salani, Officina Bodoni, 1963-64. In 2°. 6 vols. With 100 color illustrations by Salvador Dalì executed in Paris on Rives paper by Raymond Jacquet, small eyelet engraved in red at the beginning of each volume, text printed in two colors, red for the two volumes of Inferno, purple for Purgatory and blue for Paradise, loose fascicles in beards, in chemise and editorial paperback in a color-printed slipcase, some volumes retain the publisher's control band. Limited edition of 3044 copies, this is no. 1629. Preface by Giovanni Nencioni. § Together: Salvador Dalì, 100 woodcuts for the Divine Comedy. Catalogue raisonné. Rome, Edizioni ELDEC, 1980.
Specialist Notes
Beautiful limited edition copy printed by Stamperia Valdonega of Verona on handmade paper by Fratelli Magnani of Pescia. The color woodcuts that embellish the work were undoubtedly Dalì's most important illustrative work. The iconographic apparatus is composed of 100 plates, measuring 355 x 280 mm. It took 5 years of work, from 1960 to 1964, to engrave the 3500 woodcuts to progressively print the 35 colors of each individual plate; the work of engraving the wood plates was carried out by Maestro Raymond Jacquet under the direct supervision of Salvador Dalì who poured, in illustrating the Divine Comedy, the most relevant motifs of his metaphysical and mystical research.
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