Very large signature on Original Salvador Dali drawing in cookbook
Description
A huge Salvador Dali signature and drawing inside hardcover copy of Les Diners de Gala, a cookbook authored by the artist.
Published Barcelona: Editorial Labor, S.A., 1974 the book is boldly signed by the author as "Dali" on left front free endpaper, and supplemented with an original drawing of a hooded religious figure on the right copyright page.
Ca. 1975 N.p. Dalí has signed, inscribed, and dated his dedicatory inscription in black marker as: "A Ginesta / Dali / 1975."
Signature takes up a 6.5” square.
Drawing shows head of a Nazareno carrying a lit taper. It is 7.5” by 11.5” and fills the whole page.
Bound in publisher's pictorial cloth boards showing some rubbing and edge wear, and lacking a dust jacket.
First free endpapers are slightly creased near the hinge, presumably when Dali was completing his drawing. Isolated edge darkening and gentle toning within, with slight mustiness.
Otherwise near dine condition. Book is 8.625” x 12.25” x 1.5”, folio edition, 9 - 324pp.
The book is a rarity, with a cover illustration not used on most copies.
The contents are a homage to the cookery of Gala Dali, Dali’s wife, and Salvador’s love of fine food. It is lavishly illustrated, including with Dali’s own work.
Salvador Dali is one of the best-known and most valuable of all 20th-century artists. He was a major figure in the development of Surrealism.Though best known for his paintings, Dali worked in film, photography and much more. His life was also something of a performance piece and he was a well-known public figure for much of his life. In contrast to his outlandish art work - full of dream imagery and deeply sexual and sensual - Dali supported conservative, Catholic politics causes, and his support for the Franco regime in Spain alienated him permanently from other avant garde artists, including his previous friend, Picasso.
Dali’s work is in museum collections around the world, and two institutions are devoted to his work. His best known works can go for millions, with Portrait de Paul Eluard selling for £13.5 million in 2011.
This is an extraordinary opportunity to own original, signed, dedicated work from one of the giant’s of 20th-century art.
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