Salvador Dali Cacciaguida Divine Comedy Signed Limited Ed. Woodcut Framed
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Salvador Dali Cacciaguida Divine Comedy Signed Limited Ed. Woodcut COA Framed.
Up for sale is a Watercolor "Cacciaguida Sees Dante's Exile in God" Woodblock print from Paradise The Divine Comedy by Salvador Dali. It is signed, matted, and framed in wood with a gold finish. Comes with attached COA on the back.
Measurements: Paper size is 8” W x 12” H Framed size is 20 x 23.5”
Frame has a couple of dings and the hanging screws poke through the topHistory...: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech, Marquis of Dali de Pubol (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dali, was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in Figures, Catalonia, Spain.
Dali was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dali's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dali attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an Arab lineage, claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.
Dali was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem and to the irritation of his critics.
Woodblocking:To celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth, the government of Italy planned to issue a special edition of The Divine Comedy. For this issue, Dali created 101 watercolors between 1951 and 1960. In 1954, La Libreria della Stato published a brochure with 7 of the paintings reproduced full size as lithographs, together with sample pages of the text. Due to the opposition these prints created, the Italian government dropped the project and postage stamps were issued instead. Several years later, Joseph Foret, in Paris, who had previously published other Dali suites such as Don Quixote, started production of the prints by wood engraving. Master engravers worked from 1959 - 1963 to carve 3500 separate woodblocks for the 100 prints. The Divine Comedy project was then taken over and completed by Jean Estrade of Les Heures Claires. Historically, woodcut is the most important of the relief printing processes. Since woodblocks can be printed together with type, this was for many years the favored method of book illustration. In the instance of Salvador Dali's early woodcut engravings, "The Divine Comedy" (1952-1964) up to 35 woodblocks were used in the printing. Many of these progressive proof impressions taken from the blocks survive giving a vivid visual history of the build up of the final image from multiple blocks.
Up for sale is a Watercolor "Cacciaguida Sees Dante's Exile in God" Woodblock print from Paradise The Divine Comedy by Salvador Dali. It is signed, matted, and framed in wood with a gold finish. Comes with attached COA on the back.
Measurements: Paper size is 8” W x 12” H Framed size is 20 x 23.5”
Frame has a couple of dings and the hanging screws poke through the topHistory...: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech, Marquis of Dali de Pubol (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dali, was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in Figures, Catalonia, Spain.
Dali was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dali's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dali attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an Arab lineage, claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.
Dali was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem and to the irritation of his critics.
Woodblocking:To celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth, the government of Italy planned to issue a special edition of The Divine Comedy. For this issue, Dali created 101 watercolors between 1951 and 1960. In 1954, La Libreria della Stato published a brochure with 7 of the paintings reproduced full size as lithographs, together with sample pages of the text. Due to the opposition these prints created, the Italian government dropped the project and postage stamps were issued instead. Several years later, Joseph Foret, in Paris, who had previously published other Dali suites such as Don Quixote, started production of the prints by wood engraving. Master engravers worked from 1959 - 1963 to carve 3500 separate woodblocks for the 100 prints. The Divine Comedy project was then taken over and completed by Jean Estrade of Les Heures Claires. Historically, woodcut is the most important of the relief printing processes. Since woodblocks can be printed together with type, this was for many years the favored method of book illustration. In the instance of Salvador Dali's early woodcut engravings, "The Divine Comedy" (1952-1964) up to 35 woodblocks were used in the printing. Many of these progressive proof impressions taken from the blocks survive giving a vivid visual history of the build up of the final image from multiple blocks.
