Le Decameron - Complete Suite, 10 Engravings 1972 - HS

Year1972

Hand SignedLower Right in Pencil 

Condition Mint 

Not FramedIn original Portfolio Case 

Purchased fromDealer 1998 

Provenance / HistoryPurchased from The Salvador Dali Gallery, Pacific Palisades California from B. Hochman. 

Story / Additional InfoThis edition is registered with the Salvador Dali Archives and has been examined and signed by Albert Field (paperwork available). Publisher is Jean Schneider, Basel / Pamela Verlag / Gallerie Borjeson. This edition was printed at Atelier Rigal, Paris. All engravings are signed and the tirage is numbered; text by Giovanni Boccaccio. The complete text and 10 engravings in color are enclosed in a scarlet cloth embossed portfolio and slipcase. The sheets have full margins, loose as issued. 

Certificate of AuthenticityRespected independant opinion and Art Brokerage 

LID136038

Salvador Dali - Spain

Art Brokerage: Park West Artist: Salvador Dali Spanish Artist: Salvador Dalí was a renowned Spanish Surrealist artist known for his enigmatic paintings of dreamscapes and religious themes. The Persistence of Memory (1931), arguably his best known work, visually manifests the strangeness of time by depicting clocks melting in an idyllic landscape. "One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams," he once reflected. Born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain, he displayed a great aptitude for the visual arts as a teenager. Three years after his first exhibition at the age of 14, he enrolled at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. At school, he emulated many contemporary styles but also the works of Johannes Vermeer and Diego Velázquez. During his visits to Paris in the late 1920s, he was introduced to the Surrealist movement by René Magritte and Joan Miró. Though the concept of Surrealism was new to him, Dalí was already well versed in the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. Dabbling in various projects throughout his long career, in 1942 he published the book The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí. A mixture of self-aggrandizing confessions and sadistic fantasies about his childhood, the book further outlined the artist's outlandish persona. However, his pronounced sense of ego was not always unfounded, as evinced in his works inclusion in Alfred Hitchcock's famous dream sequence from the film Spellbound (1945). Dalí died on January 23, 1989 in his hometown of Figueres, Spain. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, among others. Listings wanted.