DALI RARE **HAND SIGNED** A Spirit QuestIons Dante 1960

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HAND SIGNED!

Purgatory Chant 14 A Spirit Questions Dante SIGNED

Description

Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving

Paper: watermarked B.F.K. Rives on cream color paper with a deckel bottom.

Signature: Engraved Signature and HAND SIGNED

Size: circa 10.25 x 13 inches

Condition: Mint Condition.  never left the protection of the original slipcase (40 year old engraving!)

We acquired this extraordinary piece from the estate of a prominent deceased art collector from Glencoe, IL on the North Shore of Chicago.  

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This Rare woodcut engraving by Salvador Dali is an Original & Authentic piece from the Divine Comedy Suite 1960-1964. This rare piece features an engraved signature and is also HAND SIGNED and is guaranteed 100% authentic. This piece will be shipped in an acid free sleeve and has a lifetime guarantee.

This RARE PIECE of artwork from one of the greatest MASTERS has sold on popular cruise ships and major gallery houses for

 $7,500 - $8,000.

The availability of this piece of artwork is EXTREMELY LIMITED!!!

The Divine Comedy series, by Dante and illustrated by Salvador Dali is considered by many to have been Salvador Dali's most incredible and notable work. Published 1960 - 1964.  The title of this poem "Divine Comedy" refers to the search for spiritual salvation, according to the doctrine of Catholicism and to the classical dramatic form of the comedy in which life's problems are resolved in a happy ending.

The Divine Comedy describes Dantes imaginary Journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. No other poem in any language has such a wide appeal as the interest created by one man's vision of life after death. For the last six hundred years, the Divine comedy, with its outreaching verse and imagery has drawn people from every walk of life into its verse and has been illustrated throughout history by such notable artists as Boticelli, Flaxman, Dore, and even the poet William Blake. Our  favorite, is of course, the woodcut engravings presented by one of the greatest artists in history, Surrealist Master Salvador Dali

AUTHENTIC DALI WOODCUT ENGRAVINGS THAT ARE HAND SIGNED ARE BECOMING NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND.

THE LIMITED SUPPLY OF ORIGINAL AUTHENTIC DALI WOODCUTS SURELY WILL INCREASE THE VALUE OF THIS PIECE

MANY ART SCHOLARS CONSIDER DALI'S DIVINE COMEDY TO BE THE FINEST WOODCUT ENGRAVINGS EVER MADE.


THE WOODCUT PROCESS IS A LOST ART FORM. EACH COLOR REQUIRED A SEPARATE WOODBLOCK. 

EXPERT ENGRAVERS SPENT 4 YEARS MAKING THE NECESSARY 3500 WOODBLOCKS TO COMPLETE THIS PROJECT WITH DALI'S PERSONAL SUPERVISION

HIS HAND SIGNATURE WAS PERSONALLY ENGRAVED INTO EACH WOODBLOCK

THIS PIECE WAS ALSO HAND SIGNED
BY SALVADOR DALI  

Printing from woodblocks was known in China from around 800 ad. in Europe as early as the twelfth century, but originally only for stamping designs on textiles. the earliest surviving prints on paper cannot be dated before the last years of the fourteenth century (1370 found in Eastern France). Since woodblocks can be printed together with type, this was for many years the favored method of book illustration. Wood engravings were first developed in the eighteenth century. A very hard wood such as boxwood is used, which is always cut across the grain. the tool used is a version of a burin or graver, the handle of which is held against the palm and the blade pushed before the hand, making a clean incision into the wood. Wood engravings are printed in relief in the same way as woodcuts. The wood engraver is able to produce much more detailed work than the woodcutter and characteristically achieves an effect of closely worked lines that print white against black. Thomas Bewick of Newcastle (1753 - 1828) was the first great exponent of wood engraving, which was much used in the nineteenth century for book illustration. Wood engraving can be used for color work. Separate blocks are generally cut for each color area. In the instance of Salvador Dali's early woodcut engravings, "The Divine Comedy (1952-1964), up to twenty five 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.

Spanish Surrealist Painter, 1904-1989



"Every morning when I wake up I experience an exquisite joy, the joy of being Salvador Dali? and I ask myself in rapture, What wonderful things is this Salvador Dali? going to accomplish today??" -Salvador Dali

A little word about Salvador Dali . . .

A flamboyant painter, writer, sculptor and experimental film-maker, Salvador Dali was probably the greatest Surrealist artist in history (certainly THE greatest according to Dali!). Influenced by Sigmund Freud and his own endlessly sophisticated mind Dali utilized bizarre dream imagery to create the striking and unforgettable landscapes of his inner world.

Salvador Dali was born in May 11, 1904 in the town of Figueres, Spain, in the principality of Catalonia. Salvador Dali spent his boyhood in Figueres and at the family's summer home in the fishing village of Cadaques where his first studio was built for him by his parents. He later went to school in Madrid, at the Academy of Fine Arts. Dali was expelled from the Academy in 1923 for being undisciplined. Dali would return to this area as an adult, with his wife Gala. Many of his paintings reflect his love of this area of Spain.

Dali was to become a leader in the surrealist movement. His painting, The Persistence of Memory, with the soft or melting watches is still one of the best-known surrealist works in existence. Just prior to, and during, World War II, due to his contrary and apolitical views, Dali was "excommunicated" from the Surrealist community. In spite of this Dali continued to exhibit his surrealist works in many international exhibitions.

Dali left Europe during the war for the United State, where lived from 1940 to 1948. Here he was granted his first major retrospective by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1941.

In 1974, Dali opened the Teatro Museo in Figueres, Spain. This was followed by retrospectives in Paris and London at the end of the decade. After the death of his wife, Gala, in 1982, Dali's health began to fail. It deteriorated further after he was burned in a fire in his home in Pubol in 1984. Much of this part of his life was spent in seclusion, first in Pubol and later in his apartments at Torre Galatea, adjacent to the Teatro Museo. Salvador Dali died on January 23, 1989 in Figures from heart failure with respiratory complications.
 

For a limited time we will be offering a

Trilogy Framing Special!

Purchase 1 of each: Inferno, purgatory, and paradise, or any 3 Divine Comedy pieces and have them professionally framed by the best rated framer in north shore Chicago for just $250 per piece!  

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The 3 framed glass pieces will be shipped for a combined total of just $50

Framing: Thick Gold Ornate Wood Frame from Italy. We see many examples of poor framing with cheap molding from Brazil. In addition, our piece has double thick acid free matting with a fillet and conservation glass. Our framer recently won the best framer award of the North Shore of Chicago. This piece was professionally framed to the highest standards possible. When you get the piece you will be able to tell the difference (look at how the edges of the matting are cut- amateurs will use a $5 cutting knife and do it themselves. Our framer uses a very sophisticated machine to cut the corners perfectly clean.

Retail cost alone for the framing: $600  

A sample of this magnificent frame can be seen below:

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