Apr 30, 2009 - Sale 2178

Sale 2178 - Lot 350

Price Realized: $ 7,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
SALVADOR DALÍ
Die Göttliche Komödie.

Portfolio in 3 volumes with 100 color woodcuts (each matted individually), 1959-63 (published 1974). 330x262 mm; 13x10 3/8 inches (sheets), full margins.

One of 1000 numbered copies. Numbered 319 on the justification page. Printed by Ateliers Jacquet and Taricco, Paris. Published by Art--Créations--Bibliophile, Geneva. Red, purple and blue linen portfolios.

According to Field, the German dealer Dr. Jawdat Naffouj, Landstuhl, bought this edition from the publisher of the first Divine Comedy edition, Jean Estrade, and issued the series, with only text for the table of contents, in 1974. Though Naffouj sold approximately 386 sets, according to Field, other dealers handled this second edition as well, so it is unclear how many sets were sold altogether. Field pp. 189-200.