February 17, 2021 Online Catalog

100 - SALVADOR DALI IMAGINATIONS & OBJECTS OF THE FUTURE

A rare suite to find truly complete, original and unmounted, a set of 10 original mixed media impressions by Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) "Imaginations And Objects Of The Future". Original etchings were made by Salvador Dali on copper plates, impressions were pulled from those plates at the studio of J.J. Rigal in Paris. The color lithographs were hand pulled at the studio of Desjobert, Paris. The collage that appears on some of the impressions was individually applied by hand at the studio of Chicago Serigraphic Workshop in Chicago. The 100% rag paper especially manufactured to serve as a chemise for each individual print bears the watermark "Merrill Chase Publishing". The wooden box was designed especially for this edition and is unique. The prologue and descriptive text were written by Salvador Dali. Number 60 of 250 on Arches paper with text in English (not the French edition of 250). No prior states. The edition was printed in 1975-76, it is neither a posthumous nor a restrike. The lithographic plates effaced. The copper plates have been cancelled, and presented to the Teatro Museo Dali in Spain. Each work hand numbered "60/250" and hand signed in pencil by Salvador Dalí himself. Includes custom wooden Dali case with hard to find Dali stand, everything original and all sheets loose as issued. The 10 works include; "Spectacles with Holograms and Computers for Seeing Imagined Objects", "Liquid and Gaseous Television", "Breathing Pneumatic Armchair", "Melting Space - Time", "Biological Garden", "Cybernatic Lobster Telephone", "Anti-Umbrella with Atomized Liquid", "Cyclopean Makeup", "Intra-Uterine Paradesiac Locomotion", and "Liquid Tornado Bathtub". The first sheet measures approximately 30-1/2" H x 22" W overall. Plate mark on the first sheet measures approximately 27-5/8” H x 21” W (approx. 70 x 53cm). All sheets full margins, loose as issued. The Field catalogue number is 75-11. The Lopsinger catalogue numbers are 822-831. Purchased in the late 1970’s from Kenneth Sankey of Chicago Serigraphic Workshop, a co-developer of the suite, and has remained untouched in the box ever since.

Pre-sale estimate $12500 - 22500