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Salvador Dalí
Les Caprices de Goya de Dali (Dali’s ‘Caprichos’ by Goya): 78 plates
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- $15,000 - 25,000
$22,500
Lot Details
Seventy-eight heliogravures made from Goya's print series (circa 1799 edition) reworked and altered with drypoint and stencil-coloring, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins, loose (as issued).
1977
all I. 9 x 7 in. (22.9 x 17.8 cm)
all S. 17 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (43.8 x 31.1 cm)
all S. 17 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (43.8 x 31.1 cm)
All signed and variously numbered 86/200, 75/200, 62/200 or 26/200 in pencil (there were also 20 artist's proofs), published by Berggruen/Editions Graphiques Internationales, Paris, lacking plates 1 and 27, title page, and the brown leather portfolio/slipcase, all unframed.
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Salvador Dalí
Spanish | B. 1904 D. 1989Salvador Dalí was perhaps the most broadly known member of the Surrealist movement of the early twentieth century. Heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud, the avant-garde style explored consciousness and dream-like states through exaggerated landscapes and bizarre or grotesque imagery. Using the means of painting, sculpture, printmaking, film and literature, Dalí explored these ideas with a meticulous hand and inventive wit. Although known for his role in Surrealism, Dalí was also a seminal example of celebrity showmanship and the cult of personality, a phenomenon that dominates popular culture today. Always a colorful and flamboyant presence with his signature cape, wide-eyed expression and trademark upturned waxed mustache, Dalí was a master of self-promotion and spectacle.
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