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Salvador Dalí(1904-1989)Babaouo
26 May 2021, 12:00 EDT
New YorkUS$2,500 - US$3,500
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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Babaouo (Field 78-2), 1978
Complete bound volume with 7 woodcuts and one engraving in colors on vélin de Rives paper, engraving and colophon signed in pencil, colophon numbered 10 from the edition of 90 (the total edition was 475), with collaged frontispiece on gold paper hand painted with gouache, published by Le Centre Cultural de Paris, engraving with full margins, bound in gilt and blind-stamped burgundy calf designed by the artist, with silk moire slipcase with leather edges. (8 works)
overall 15 1/2 x 11 1/2in (39.5 x 29.5cm)
Complete bound volume with 7 woodcuts and one engraving in colors on vélin de Rives paper, engraving and colophon signed in pencil, colophon numbered 10 from the edition of 90 (the total edition was 475), with collaged frontispiece on gold paper hand painted with gouache, published by Le Centre Cultural de Paris, engraving with full margins, bound in gilt and blind-stamped burgundy calf designed by the artist, with silk moire slipcase with leather edges. (8 works)
overall 15 1/2 x 11 1/2in (39.5 x 29.5cm)
Footnotes
Babaouo was an original screenplay written by Dalí in 1932 for an unrealized Surrealist film. The present artist's book was designed to convey the original conceit of the film, the picaresque adventures of a character named Babaouo.