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Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000
SALVADOR DALÍ Les Caprices de Goya.
Portfolio with 80 heliogravures from Goya's etchings with aquatint from Los Caprichos reworked by Dalí with drypoint and with stencil coloring, 1977. 450x315 mm; 17 3/4x12 1/2 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.
Each print signed and numbered 135/200 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Rigal, Paris. Published by Berggruen, Paris. Original brown portfolio and slipcase. Superb impressions with strong colors.
Dalí's printed masterpiece, for which he had all of Goya's etchings with aquatint from the circa 1799 seminal Los Caprichos series reproduced as heliogravures and reworked each of the heliogravure plates with Surrealist drypoint additions which were subsequently embellished with stencil coloring. Extremely scarce as a complete set. We have found only 21 other complete sets at auction in the past 30 years.
With letters confirming the authenticity of prints signed by Albert Field, the Salvador Dalí Archives, New York, dated April 30, 1996. Michler/Löpsinger 848-927; Field 77-3.
