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Salvador Dalí(1904-1989)Le Decameron (10 works)
12 May 2022, 10:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$8,925 inc. premium
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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
Le Decameron (10 works) (Field 72-8-A-J), 1972
The portfolio comprising 10 etchings in colors on folded Arches paper, each signed in pencil, numbered 41 on the justification page (the entire edition was 621), with title page and text by Giovanni Boccaccio, sheets loose and folded (as issued) published/printed by Ateliers Rigal, Paris, with full margins, with purple book cover, contained in green silk covered portfolio. (10 works)
portfolio 18 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 2 3/4in (47 x 34.2 x 7cm)
The portfolio comprising 10 etchings in colors on folded Arches paper, each signed in pencil, numbered 41 on the justification page (the entire edition was 621), with title page and text by Giovanni Boccaccio, sheets loose and folded (as issued) published/printed by Ateliers Rigal, Paris, with full margins, with purple book cover, contained in green silk covered portfolio. (10 works)
portfolio 18 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 2 3/4in (47 x 34.2 x 7cm)
Footnotes
Of the 100 tales in le Decameron, Dali chose to illustrate the 10 most erotic and picaresque ones.