Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Los Cantos de Maldoror

Salvador Dali (after) The Cantos of Maldoror by Isidore Ducasse, Count of Lautréamont Edit by PLANETA, 2011. Dawn Beech wood case/box aged by hand with a Salvador Dalí drawing silk-screened on the lid. "The Cantos of Maldoror" Salvador Dalí. Editorial Arika/ Planeta in coedition with the Gala Salvador Dalí Foundation, Barcelona 2011. Hardcover binding. 1st limited and numbered edition. Measurements: 46.8 x 35.3 x 14.3 cm. Weight: 15 kg. Condition: In perfect preservation. Interior of the box with capitonné padding and interior nest lined in bright red silk. Closures, handle and edges in metal. Includes: 6 independent notebooks with a total of 360 pages with sewn binding and handbound with natural gauze. Facsimile reproduction of the 30 Dalí prints, printed in 5 inks, and the 12 engravings that illustrate the opening and closing of each of the Cantos. Facsimile reproduction of the 11 preparatory drawings and 4 state proofs. And the book with the Studio. Also when opening the case there is a solid iron plate, treated with oxide, manually polished with pumice powder. At the bottom, silkscreened a quote from the Count Lautréamont, from canto the first. Unique edition limited to 2,998 copies. Edition of The Cantos of Maldoror based on the first Spanish translation of the work, made by Julio Gómez de la Serna in 1925. The reproductions have been printed on Modigliani paper and mounted by hand on Tatami White paper. Very good conditio

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