Salvador DALÍ : L’Art d’aimer d’Ovide (Ovid’s Art of Love), double-page etching, 1978

By DALI Salvador (1904-1989)

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)
L’Art d’aimer d’Ovide (Ovid’s Art of Love), double-page plate, 1978

Original etching printed in red, green and black on Arches wove paper

Signed and dated 1978 in the plate lower left; unsigned and unnumbered in pencil, as issued in the book

Dimensions:
+ Sheet: 56 × 68 cm (22.0 × 26.8 in.)
+ Plate: approx. 39.5 × 49.5 cm (15.6 × 19.5 in.)

Condition: Good condition. Central vertical fold, as issued (double-page plate). Yellow stain in the lower left margin. Deckle edge preserved along the lower edge. Plate mark clearly visible. Unframed.

References: Field 79-2; Michler & Löpsinger 933

Period: published 1979

From L’Art d’aimer d’Ovide, Centre Culturel de Paris, 1979, edition of 250 copies.

The only etching in the book, alongside the double-page lithographed title and the thirteen woodcuts: a robed figure holding a flower watches over a reclining nude, a single flower springing from the ground beside him.

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